Change is a Good Thing
Last Sunday, while attending church my pastor began his sermon by making the following statement, "Change challenges us to trust God." I immediately thought about my current journey to become a reasonably good computational chemist. Believe me, right now, I refuse to "stay in my lane." For the past three weeks, I have been frustrated and frequently uttered the phrase, "Lord Jesus please help me." My pastor also stated, "It's hard to see the picture, when you are the one in the frame." Honestly, many of us are afraid to try something new because we don't like to be "uncomfortable." As a chemist, I make stuff in the laboratory and then I study it. Even if you don't actually make something in the lab, you can still study it using computer models, which is a really cool thing to do. But, what I have learned so far is that it is perfectly fine to be uncomfortable, specifically when you are trying to achieve something much bigge...