Growing up as a child of an immigrant mother and father, I was told to go to school, be successful academically, and land a well-paying job. Thus, in my younger years the majority of the classes I have taken felt more like chores and not something I enjoy learning. However, that all changed when I took chemistry in the second year of high school. I was incredibly fascinated and intrigued by how the world is created by the arrangement of molecules and within these molecules has even smaller particles of atoms and even smaller particles of protons, neutrons, and electrons. My love for chemistry has given me a sense of discovery as well as reviving and receiving a purpose for learning other subjects. For instance, math, which used to be a mindless