Ah, it’s finally Saturday. Usually, I would sleep in until noon. Unfortunately, we had a mandatory lab in Chas at 8am, so my roommates and I woke up at 6:30 and snoozed our alarms until 7:15. In the first 3-ish weeks of SSP, I always got breakfast, but recently I’ve been skipping to get more sleep.
In the lab, we analyzed our inhibitor screening data and concluded that it was terrible, so we optimized our procedure by basing our conditions on scientific literature. Then, we spent the next 3 and a half hours redoing our inhibitor screening and it was now time to analyze our data. It turned out to be complete and utter trash, and so much worse than our original data, which meant that we would have to redo it again sometime. But at least it was now time for lunch! And you know what they say—out of sight, out of mind.
So my friends and I went to Jersey Mike’s, only to find out that it was closed, along with every other restaurant on campus. So, we had no choice but to eat at the Ford dining hall. I got a pork cutlet along with onion rings and vegetable minestrone soup, which, surprisingly, wasn’t bad. They also had a fruit loops marshmallow thing for dessert, which also wasn’t bad.
Now it was time to go on a field trip!
First we went to Columbian Park Zoo, where we got to see some animals and pet some goats.
Then we walked over to a waterpark 2 minutes away called Tropicanoe Cove. We went on the lazy river and a couple of waterslides, and played some beach volleyball in between.
After the waterpark, we headed over to a Chinese/Korean restaurant called Rolling Bowl for dinner. The restaurant did not have any air conditioning whatsoever, so we were all getting cooked alive. The thermostat was set to 92 degrees Fahrenheit and the heat coming from the kitchen was not helping matters. The only worker in the restaurant was Hispanic and couldn’t speak English, which was kind of inconvenient. However, the food was pretty good. We all shared a bowl of kimchi fried rice, beef fried rice, beef noodles (which was terrible), pork belly skewers, and lamb skewers.
Afterwards, we went to a dessert store across the street called Mango Mango, where I bought a creme brulee crepe cake, which was pretty good.
Then, we went on a target run to buy a crate of water, since Indiana water tastes meh. And finally, we hung out in the basement rec room until it was time to go to bed.
-Neilson
