Science. I like the topic quite a bit, but it's too broad for a two-page essay - I can and have gone on much longer than that on a single research topic. Now, an essay about the intersection between me and science… While still a vast topic, it can be reasonably compressed into a few pages if I leave out all the boring details. But all the fun is in the details, and I want this to be a fun essay, both for me to write and for you to read. So we'll have to narrow it down further, to how I began to appreciate science in my daily life. This is not to be confused with the event that first sparked my interest in science. It happened too long ago for me to remember and probably involved some sort of explosion. No, despite my abiding interest in the topic and knowledge of the omnipresence and usefulness of science, I didn't truly appreciate it in my life until recently. The object that led to this revelation was nothing particularly important: it was a book on chocolate making. Before I received this book, I was an indifferent chocolatier. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas I churned out about a hundred truffles (I have a large family), but I had never gone beyond the basics: a cup of cream, a cup of chocolate, some flavoring. While I still can't claim to be good at chocolate making, my creations have certainly become much more complex and I now enjoy the process much more, all thanks to one section of the book that caught my attention: the science of materials. of chocolate production. For example, tempering chocolate. I didn't know such a thing existed, but this book informed me that cocoa butter is a polymorphic crystal and can form into six shapes – For… half the paper… I could barely temper the chocolate consistently! Then I will know that I have mastered that part of the art and can move on to, for example, learning about the properties of sweeteners. Because apparently glucose syrups, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, molasses, and something called invert syrup all have completely different properties and it's actually really fascinating how...Anyway. For me, science is more than an interest and a future career: it's a hobby. I love finding the causes behind everyday phenomena, especially when the phenomenon itself is behind the scenes. The best thing about science is that it makes everything else more interesting. Why simply make chocolates when you can instead coax a polymorphic solid into forming the perfect crystalline structure and produce chocolate? It's a wonderful world. And it's even better when we experience it.