Happy Tuesday! Aimee here. We’ve been locked in writing our research papers recently, so I thought it would be fun to include aspects of writing them in this blog. I’m not going to write formally, but I included my photos as ‘formal figures’ with captions for yall to view. (Thank you Jimmy for carrying Group 7’s formal figures!!) *Notice: the figures are a bit out of order; I am not the most organized!
This morning started off like usual; my alarm woke me up at 6:30, I snoozed it, it woke me up again, I snoozed it again… Until I opened my eyes and I was running late! I quickly got ready, then headed off to breakfast at Ford Dining Hall with Hana and Jimmy, who are also some of the few people who go to breakfast in the morning (Figure 1).

After breakfast, we headed off to the pharmacy building for the first lecture of the day (Figure 2). We also walked with Leyu and Andrew (from Biochem I) this morning; it’s so sad that today is their last full day here (Figure 10)! We will miss you!


We had an amazing lecture by our AD, Dr. Keithly, who discussed her research in regards to antibiotic resistance in gram positive bacteria (Figure 4). After the lecture, we headed over to Chas, our lab building, to get some work done (Figure 3). Each group is busy developing their Cdc14 inhibitors on MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) and writing their research papers. At 11:45-ish, we took a quick break to build critters with hot glue guns and pipette tips courtesy of the academic staff (Figure 8, Figure 9).




At around 12, we were dismissed from Chas and everyone headed off to lunch. There are many places that we can go, but my group decided to go to PMU, the Purdue Memorial Union, which has many small restaurants. I got my usual, a poke bowl, and everyone sat together chatting until it was time to go back to the pharmacy building for lecture (Figure 2).
After lunch, we were treated to a lecture by Dr. Avard, our AAD (her name is a palindrome btw!), who discussed her research in metastatic cancer. Then, we headed back to Chas to continue working on MOE and our papers. My group went into wet lab to rerun our dose-response assays (spoiler alert: the data wasn’t good ;-; ) (Figure 11).

At 5:30, we were dismissed and headed back to the dorms to change for formal dinner. Dinner was at Ford Dining Hall, where it normally is held on weekdays, and I enjoyed chatting with my fellow participants sitting at my table (Figure 12). After announcements, including the news of a Blind-Deaf-Mute challenge later in the evening, everyone walked back to the dorms together (Figure 6, Figure 7).


As most people went to get ice cream, I decided to take some time for myself and chill. The common areas in Honors South are great places to relax (Figure 5). The Blind-Deaf-Mute challenge afterward was extremely fun; it was interesting seeing everyone’s creations (Figure 11, Figure 12, Figure 13). Everyone hung out after the challenge until 11pm curfew, then it was good night!



Today was a really eventful day. Not a single day here goes by without me being grateful for my amazing cohort. Everyone here got so close so fast; it’s such a short period of time but we spend so much time together that it feels as if I’ve known everyone for ages. The friendships here feel unique somehow, and I can’t believe that I only have one more week with these amazing people. Thank you everyone for giving me the best summer memories ever!!


-Aimee