Week 4, 07/13/2024, Genomics, Purdue

Hey everyone, Tejas here.

It is Saturday, the weekend of Week 4. We started our day at 8:20, working on finding mutations in our newly received antibiotic resistant bacteria gene sequence. It was very exciting to discover the genes upon which mutations had been selected for! At 11:30, we headed back to the dorms. After a quick rest, all the boys went to grab lunch, and quickly returned back to the dorms.

We all finished up our remaining work on the problem sets we are currently assigned. I went with my friends Collin, Manish, Surya, and Colton to go play basketball for an hour, and then we had to rush back to the dorms to get ready for the bus to go to Elite Air (trampoline park). It was so much fun! A couple of kids were dunking on really high hoops using trampolines, and I played some dodgeball with Andres.

After tiring ourselves out, everyone ate some popsicles and we headed to Panda Express and Popeyes for dinner. We all faced a difficult choice between restaurants, but I decided to go with my roommate Jerry to Panda Express. We had some chowmein with kung pao chicken, which was quite spicy. After eating dinner, everyone went to watch a local baseball game. It was quite interesting, but we had to leave after the fourth inning, since it was getting late. Once we reached the dorms, we all played some ping pong and went to sleep, ready for the next day of learning and fun!