Excerpt

This excerpt was in the New York Times recently.  I love all the science-y references.  It reminds me of the affinity I feel for the element yttrium, an affinity built on nothing more than a 6th grade research project.  I chose yttrium because I didn't know what it was, and neither did anyone else.  I didn't even know how to pronounce it (y-t-t, what?  Who put those letters together?) which made it all the more appealing.  I was just that sort of kid.  And now I'm just that sort of college student.