STUDENT BLOG

Hi y’all! Apologies in advance for my unsophisticated writing – I’m being attacked by Timothy’s valley girl voice and nonstop sigma sigma boy, sigma boy. It’s honestly crazy to think that it’s already the first day of July. We’re basically halfway there :0 Today was pretty typical. I rolled out of bed to turn off […]

Today was the first day of TA talks. Chris’s talk was about the Euler-Lagrange equations. He talked about how there are two main types of classical mechanics, Newtonian and Lagrangian/Hamiltonian. In short, Chris derived the Euler-Lagrange equations and then showed us how we could apply them in order to prove that Euclidean geodesics are always […]

Today was our last official day of SSP. At 9:30 in the morning, we took surveys to see how much we learned over the program in math and physics. After lunch, I went back to my room and started packing my stuff, when I randomly decided to check my phone. This was when I realized […]

Hey everyone! My name is Raymond and I’m from Pennsylvania. Today was Day 34 out of 35 at Purdue Biochem II, I can’t believe we’re already at the end of Week 5! I originally planned to wake up at 6:00am to finish up my research paper but the sleep deprivation finally caught up to me. […]

Hello! My name is Benny and I am from Kingston, New York. As we come closer to the final day we still have a report time of 8:00 am. Starting the day off with a survey that measured our progress and performance I definitely felt more fluent in the questions compared to the first survey. […]

” … But a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts. It’s a privilege to be among them.” Hello twins, I am Kingsley currently writing the previous day’s (i.e., Day 31) blog on my phone in a state of quiet reflection whilst indefinitely detained in the bathroom from today’s (i.e., Day 32) banana eating contest. Day […]

The End of the Beginning Mere days ago, it felt like my experience here would never end. From going to lab after dinner, only to leave at dark; to staying up making memorabilia, cracking corny jokes with friends; to grinding our final research manuscripts under a tight deadline; the familiar environment we curated truly seemed […]

What’s up SSP!!! Today marks the last 5 days of the program 😢 ( I know very sad since it’s all ending so fast) Today was a pretty busy day as we had to get our posters done for the symposium this Saturday. This morning I got up at 6:45 am and headed to breakfast, […]

Two days left of SSP? I don’t believe it. The past 34 days have flown by, and yet it feels like I have been here all of my life in a way. I know many of my friends here feel the same. In two days, we will be back to our old routines. For many, […]

Hey there!!!! (Again) It is our second to last day of the program! It is such a bittersweet thought to think that we will be leaving in 24 hours. However, I could not even enjoy those thoughts because our final draft of the paper was due today… AT NOON. So as one does, I woke […]

Yes, the title was a little bit clickbait. Yes, this is going to be themed off the movie 10 Things I Hate About You (not really though, since I don’t know that many quotes). I think a more fitting and less controversial title might be: 10 Things I (Love) about SSP Synth Chem. Anyways, my […]

third to last full day of ssp synth chem! 5 weeks of ssp is almost over, which is sooooo insane to think about. now, it’s time to lock in on our papers and posters!!!  6:34 am i woke up bright and early, got dressed, and headed over to the CPP by 7:00 to work on […]

Hello kind reader, It’s me once again. Today, we had our final lecture in the lecture room, our final meal in the dining hall, and our final night in the dorms. I woke up to the sound of the water dripping from the light in the shower. The water definitely is not good water since […]

Every beginning meets an end.  On June 15th, I departed from LAX full of anxiousness and nervousness of what’s to come. The canvas—my potential life and experience at SSP—was empty, and my head was simply filled with the one goal of getting the first stroke right.  Back then, five weeks sounded way too long. How […]

The schedule has become second nature by now. I woke up at 7:30 am to the sound of my buzzing alarm, alert and ready to start the day after a good night’s rest. By now the truth was inevitable, SSP was coming to a close. I tried to push these intrusive thoughts to the back […]