The rise of quantum computers has been the most thrilling technological advance I have ever seen. It will still be a few years before I replace my personal-use bits with qubits, but public access to quantum computation is increasing weekly. Just recently, Baidu (a Chinese tech giant) unveiled a ten-qubit processor and announced plans to allow access via several platforms, including smartphones. With this comes an exciting new era of information processing, opening remarkable opportunities for so many scientific fields to progress. Increased computational power benefits nearly every aspect of modern life. Medical diagnoses may become faster and more accurate. New and existing communication networks will experience skyrocketing performance capabilities and negligible-to-nonexistent time lag, including off-planet transmissions. Infrastructure, through advanced modeling methods, can become safer, longer lasting, and more cost-efficient. Weather will be predicted with greater accuracy. Artificial intelligence will become exponentially more powerful. Barring a rogue artificial entity incident, all of this leads to a healthier, happier, safer, and more connected world. And it all comes from studying how our universe works. I have always been curious, stubborn, and motivated to push my limits. At my hometown’s library, in the very small section devoted to natural sciences and mathematics, that combination of traits led me to pick up an odd book on multi-dimensional geometry. My eight-year-old brain was unable to grasp much of the text, but the diagrams of hypercubes captivated me. How could matter occupy the same space as other matter? And what did the author mean when they said, “as n approaches infinity”? My only choice was the keep reading and learning, which—to this day—continues to delight me with more questions. My curiosity and motivation have only grown stronger. However, I have taken to referring to my stubbornness as “perseverance.” Fueled by that drive, I have my sights set on leading a research project at CERN. Answers to questions surrounding things like dark matter and quantum gravity lurk in every quark, and I hope to help translate them for the world. I may be too late to get in on the major quantum computing action, but I can help refine it. With every Large Hadron Collider run, humanity accesses new intimate secrets of the universe. Someday, I will have the privilege of converting one such secret into something that saves lives, sustains our society, or perhaps inspires another young woman to pick up an odd book in a library.