STUDENT BLOG

My day started off at 8:40 A.M. when I sluggishly rolled out of bed to get ready for our 9:00 A.M. lecture. Today was our second-to-last Saturday, an exciting but sad milestone. Since we only have about one week of SSP left, I’ve made it a habit to try five new things everyday. Today while […]

Hey guys, this is my SSP blog post for 7/11/2025!! This blog starts off a little messy, I woke up at 9:30 accidentally and had to run to class and skip breakfast! To be honest I usually skip breakfast but sadly today skipping it was not a conscious decision… After collapsing on the table from […]

Today started off strong: instead of lecture, we went on a field trip to the Denver Zoo. At 8:30, we boarded our bus and drove over to Denver. Notwithstanding a lengthy trip to the gift shop, we were moving from the second we arrived to the second we left! We saw all kinds of animals, […]

Today, I woke up at 6:00 AM, which definitely put me in some sleep debt, but I needed to lock in for today’s first activity, a 5K race. This “locking in” consisted of three Brawl Stars matches, half an episode of Dexter, and one bite of a chocolate rice cake. Armed with my dopamine-satiated brain […]

Hey guys, it’s Shiv from Kansas City, Missouri. Today’s a relatively exciting Saturday because we get to GO TO THE MOVIES! But, that’s at the end of the day, so let’s start from the beginning. We got an extra hour of sleep (hooray!) because the first lecture of the day was delayed. Only a few […]

Hey everyone! I am Ari from Connecticut. Today is Friday, Day 12 of Purdue Biochem 2. I started the day by going to breakfast, leaving the dorm at 7:20 am. After an uneventful breakfast, I walked over to Lawson for our first lecture at 8 am. We were not in our normal lecture room due […]

Hi peeps! I will be taking you through a day in my life 🙂  I started the day around 8:10am which is a bit later than normal so I sadly wasn’t able to get some breakfast in. After getting dressed, brushing my teeth, and putting on sunscreen, I walked to class with my friend Ceci.  […]

Hey readers! Sorry, I don’t know how to write a blog because (in case you didn’t figure it out already) this is my first time writing one. Furthermore, since I’ve been at the summer science program, it’s been my “first” for a lot of things. However, I probably should introduce myself so you know just […]

My day began, as it usually does, with breakfast at 8:40 am. I had my usual meal, minus the yogurt which, as I discovered, had apparently succumbed to the basketball camp participants probably long before I arrived.  After breakfast, we headed to Strain Hall to begin our longest lab yet: natural transformation in V. natriegens. […]

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 […]

Vincent’s joke: why is tungsten the best element?read until the end to find out !! Today was another day of efficacy testing, making sure the metal complexes we made all summer actually worked! My group, Danny and Vincent, made oxidation catalysts, and so our efficacy testing has been bleaching dyes—Rhodamine B today.  Other projects, anti-fungal […]

5 days left. It’s getting a little too real today. I’m trying my best to enjoy this last week. This morning I woke up before my alarm and I’m so happy I didn’t stay up all night because today I tried my hand at doing two TIME-DEPENDENT labs at once. I was soooo locked in. […]

Today was the 26th day of our program (and my second time writing this blog), and just like last time, it was certainly a jam-packed one. We worked so much in the lab, and learned much more about the experimental process as a whole. Through trial and error, we gained crucial knowledge inside the lab […]

Today marks Day 25 of the SSP Cell Biology program, and also the restart of blog rotation. Time really flies 😎 Yesterday was a vibe — we went to a baseball game (my very first one!), and I’m so glad I got to spend it with friends 🥰 Leshi took photos for us, and from […]

Hi everyone! Amy reporting for duty. As a proud Griffindor and member of the best lab group (bAbEZ). I’m very bittersweetly going to recount Cell Biology’s last field trip. But first! Today was Emilio’s 18th birthday! So please wish him a belated birthday. My day started with breakfast at Milagro’s which I shared with friends. […]