STUDENT BLOG

After staying up for a bit the night prior, working on the first ever assigned p-set, I got up ready to tackle the day. Today marked the start of many things. We began the day by having our first lecture on Python coding, visiting the planetarium, and having a group of people try out observing […]

Today was our first official field trip, meaning we could wake up 30 minutes later than usual!!!(Still operating on 6 hours of sleep) (Still skipping breakfast) Fun Fact: I promised myself I would go for a run every morning since I got here, but I haven’t ran once. Our field trip was to the Duke […]

Hello there! My name is Maia and I’m an 18 year old girl from Romania. As you probably guessed, we have a huge Star Wars fan here:)I’m so excited to give you a brief insight on our 3rd day of SSP! First, we had a very interesting lecture related to asteroids and the formation of […]

Helloooo SSP!! 😁😁 I began my day by going down to the student center at Chadron College to get breakfast ataround 7:50 am where I got eggs, tater tots, sausage, and a soft buttery biscuit. 😋😋 Breakfastis truly one of my favorite meals of the day and at Chadron it is always on point 🔥🔥 […]

Hellooooo twinssss!! Welcome to Day 16 of SSP Biochem @ Purdue!! Today we had a late start (bless Dr.Das) so I was able to get a good 9 hours of sleep last night. If you have not already heard, I am the person who watches musicals when I get ready for the day (yes I […]

I woke up at 7:30, which was a nice break from having to wake up at 7 the last 3 days of last week because we had 8 am starts on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. That being said, it’s certainly not as nice as getting to sleep in as I did yesterday. I texted my […]

Hello everyone! My name is Jon, and I am so excited to share with everyone what our day looked like today at SSP. We started off the morning with a lecture on guest lecture etiquette by Dr. Lee; this was because Professor Jon Schnorr was going to come and give us a lecture. Afterwards, we […]

Hello there! My name is Vincia and I’m from Columbus, Indiana, around an hour south of Indianapolis. Lowkey, today has been QUITE overwhelming, but I think I’m just not used to the fast pace of camp yet. We started the day bright and early with breakfast at 7:15, but if I’m going to be honest, […]

Hi guys I am Timothy AKA Tim AKA Timmy! I am writing the SSP blog for Pacific University Genomics today! Anyway I woke up and ate breakfast. I just had a feeling that today would be another splendorous day at SSP as always. Before my first lecture for today, I got started on my question […]

hi everyone! it’s hannah back again for another amazing (and very hydrating) day at swosu! today i actually woke up on time because i changed my alarm from too soothing to extremely jarring (the classic blaring iphone alarm sound that is similar to what you’d expect to hear in a lab before an explosion in […]

Lab 🥼👨🏽‍🔬 Today was the workup day for our tetraazamacrocycles. The metal complex that I am working up now is nickel Me2-CB-12N4. This is not my original complex as I had chromium Me1H1-SB-12N4 and long story short it didn’t work so we had to switch it up. It’s ok though because the nickel has a […]

Hi everyone! It’s catey and I am one of the TAs here at SWOSU.  My day started early at about 7:00am, I painstakingly got out of bed and got ready. Rena and I were on lab duty this morning at 8am. I love being in lab and watching the students work on their reactions. Over […]

Hello kind reader,             Today, I woke up at 6:30am to the sound of the dripping water and a constant beeping noise coming from one of the rooms next to us. Our roof had just so happened to begin leaking the day before, as I guess the engineers who built the dormitories at New Mexico […]

Hello everyone, I hope everyone is doing well. As always, it’s a new day and with it comes new experiences. I would like to share some of my activities today and the knowledge that I gained.  We started off our day with an intriguing lecture from Dr. Catalan about model species, and how the use […]

Today is our first field trip! We spent 4 hours—which was insanely long, especially when my phone had no WIFI connection—to get to Albuquerque.  We first had lunch at Gallegos Park; the weather was so nice (I wish we had this weather at NMSU).  After lunch, we explored the trail a bit. I normally don’t […]