Leyu’s Blog

Wassup guys, I’m Leyu and it’s finally my blog day! Coincidentally, today’s also the one-month
benchmark for Purdue biochem session 1. On this special day, I will be collecting each of our 36
participants’ personal favorite moments so far in the program!! Read until the end for easter egg
content ^_^
Amit: being simultaneously productive and unproductive in the computer lab
Andrew: game night hide and seek
Arnav: lecture 28 on organic synthesis
Atchaya: singing “do you want to build a snowman” on top of the garage
Avery: late night talks with her roommate on the weekends
Caroline: having Chinese food in the basement
Diya: eating food after playing at the water park and getting really hungry (hooray hooray)
Elizabeth: makeup session with everyone (even the people you wouldn’t expect!)
Erik: failing (13 trials of lab) and learning
Eve: Jazzy eating mango mango without his Lactaid and making up a story about Lactaid being
his family inheritance
Grace: getting Timmy the prairie dog from the petting zoo
Iftekhar: going to the garage and talking for 2 hours with Ulee and Atchaya
Jazzy the alpha: hunting at night
Julia: watching Sophie L panick because she threw her airpods into a washing machine
Kaden: singing the Korean national anthem on the 4th of July
Katherine: hanging out in the basement
Lauren: washing pot with hand soap from the bathroom

Leyu: shopping at the petting zoo souvenir shop
Marcy: starting over lab, putting on music despite everything, and making it through
Miranda: playing the taco slapping game in the basement in week 1
Nassar: spending time with his teammates in lab and learning from their mistakes
Paul: Ulee getting the boys bathroom clogged
Peyton: Dr. Korie Grayson’s inspiring keynote speech on college and career day
Pragathi: talking to everyone after her speech and everyone was very nice and sweet
Ricky: Ryant throwing up from his bed
Rohan: singing the U.S. national anthem to a British guy on Trail 4 at Turkey Run
Ryant: Ricky using laundry detergent to clean the floor and making it slippery
Ryanz: beating biochem 2 in basketball at Turkey Run
Samuel: SSP as a whole is a moment in life, a transformative phase, like a caterpillar turning into
a butterfly, isn’t it?
Siya: hanging out in the basement, playing taco cat game and spoon game
Sophia: Xinyi starting the dryer while Sophia’s laundry detergent was in it (Xinyi heard clunk
clunk clunk noise and thought it was “natural”)
Sophie D: getting soaked with Jazzy and Julia because they all shared the same umbrella
Sophie L: weekly Mango Mango trips
Torin: gaming with the homies
Ulee: late night carrots
Xinyi: hiking on Trail 3 at Turkey Run, the feeling of dying and never returning, when she got
back there were snacks

Surprise content!! Our faculty shared their favorite SSP moments as well!
Dr. Das: his surprise birthday celebration at game night and jeopardy questions about his dog and
his research
Dr. Fantin: Pragathi calling out machine vs. instrument in her speech in front of all Purdue
cohorts
Dr. Reeves: field trip to the state museum and zoo, it was also her birthday that day! (she cried
when seeing the dolphins and received a very cute pink gift from the participants)
Mrs. Rochon: dorm meeting games
Favour: getting to know everyone’s meme
Jada: the team quiz game and charades game at game night
Hassan: Jazzy on the floor after getting gutters back to back at bowling (Jazzy became a popular
term used for indicating that someone got a gutter)
Martin: spending time with the baby goats at the petting zoo
It was so fun hearing about everyone’s unique SSP experience! With one week left in the
program, let’s finish strong and create more amazing moments together! That’s it for my blog,
see ya
By Leyu