Professor Nathan Lewis is a really famous chemistry professor at Caltech. He’s probably going to save the world some day (by solving the energy crisis with his research). He also teaches Ch 1a, first term freshman chemistry. Well, every week, he invites about 6 freshmen to lunch and today, I was picked.
He’s a really cool guy. Perhaps the thing that struck me the most was when he mentioned that when he was here at Caltech for his undergraduate degree, he thought that he was one of the dumbest students here. Although that was probably not true (he was probably a genius downplaying himself to make us frosh feel better), at least it gave me some hope. I’m certain that I’m one of the dumbest students here at Caltech. But if I can manage to just get through this school, maybe even I can be a great chemist like Dr. Lewis…