A little background: I did not take my education seriously until I was in my junior year of undergraduate at the University of Florida (UF). I was a philosophy major, and epistemology and ethics got me deeply interested in intellectual inquiry and understanding the world and our place in it. I started taking biology and chemistry courses and eventually persuaded UF to let me add chemistry as one of my majors (not without backlash, as they did not want to tarnish their graduation rate statistics). In 2016, I joined a PhD program in Biophysics and Quantitative Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I was dissatisfied with the program and took many mathematics courses. It was not until then that I really fell in love with the astonishingly beautiful and powerful subject of mathematics. UIUC let me obtain a non-thesis, coursework M.S. in Mathematics, and in 2019, I transferred to my current PhD program at Florida State University.