First(ish) Day Jitters

Hey! I’m Saheli, a rising senior from Evanston, IL. I have a younger sibling and a dog, I play the violin, and I am on the swim team.

The first few days of SSP have been jam packed with fun, learning, and (of course) work. The first day everyone began to settle in and get to know each other. We even celebrated our first birthday, shoutout to Aibike!! We moved in, met our roommates, and had our first dinner together. The next day, we began setting up our chemostats in the lab. We worked through complications but eventually everything was smooth sailing. In the evening we were able to do our agar art, which turned out amazing the next day!

We began Tuesday by admiring our Agar art and spent most of the day in the lab calibrating our chemostats. We also had another birthday to celebrate: Baback’s! Our adventures of the day were when we went to the campus store after lunch and finding new paths back to the dorm.

Below are a few pictures from the first days:

Playing frisbee on arrival day
Campus store adventure
Baback's birthday!
Agar art!