Science has been a big part of my life since the early stages of my youth. My mother taught biology at the local community college, and therefore enriched me with scientific knowledge on a daily basis. Instead of singing me classic nursery rhymes such as “Jack and Jill” and “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, she sang “Waltz Around the Cycle”: a song about the Krebs cycle. At the age of five, I could not comprehend every word of the song, for it contained advanced terminology such as “pyruvate” and “acetyl coenzyme A”. However, I understood the Krebs cycle was part of the body’s process of making energy, and all those big words were things that worked together in order for the body to function. This sort of knowledge allowed me to see the world as a