11:20 a.m.
I was examining a reaction that I had been working on for the past couple days. There were a few hiccups in the experiment in the days prior. In this moment I was excited to see the final product we had been working towards. I have the EPIC STEM scholarship, which provides one summer of paid research. I was fortunate to get on Professor Pruet’s research team during the academic year, and I was able to continue my lab work in the Chemistry and Biochemistry building into the summer.