As of late, I’ve been spending a lot of late nights in the lab. Reactions rarely go exactly as planned, and experiments tend to follow their own timelines. While mechanisms make sense on paper, real chemistry often requires patience, adjustment, and repetition. The project I’m currently working on has many moving pieces, and each one needs to be optimized before the next can truly work. More optimization means more time and more hours spent thinking, troubleshooting, and learning in ways I didn’t always expect. 

Here’s a moment that happens in research where you realize progress rarely looks dramatic. It’s small adjustments, failed attempts, and quiet persistence that eventually move things forward. Somewhere between long days in the lab and trying to build a life outside of it, I realized the same thing applies to personal growth. This website is a space where I document that process — not once everything is figured out, but while it’s still unfolding.