r/Purdue

This is kinda like a vent but I also don’t know what I should do. I moved in, my roommates are both super sweet but they both have friends already so I don’t see them very often. I don’t know what to do with myself right now; I don’t have any friends. I just spend all day walking around by myself. I’ve reached 20000 steps the last three days because I don’t want my roommates to think i’m always in my dorm even though i’d rather be there. Problem is i’m also not eating because I can’t get myself to eat alone so i’m tired all day. I like it here and i’m excited for classes to start but I just don’t know what to do with myself right now. I keep telling myself i’ll make friends once classes start but I also told myself I would become friends with my roommates and that didn’t happen.

Before anyone says anything, yes, I know how ppl gain weight, but you would think that with all the damn walking and biking you have to do to get places, the weight would melt right off

As a senior , I’m sorry to hear that CPT is paused. As a fellow international myself , I can know how it feels. I just had some advice which I thought of sharing

If you are considering the US, don’t. Paying so much for a degree when you can’t make the most of it when applying what you learnt,to industry is not worth

If you are a freshman and haven’t paid your fees, withdraw asap or make sure to leave after your freshman, your credits don’t transfer to other countries after your sophomore year. Google it if you like.

If you are a sophomore, try to withdraw and transfer , mostly ur credits as a freshman will be considered by other universities around the world

If you are a junior or senior, considering using OPT ( a few months of it) to get at least 1 experience before you leave.

It’s just my opinion though. I don’t think it’s worth spending so much money somewhere where you can’t even make the most of your degree. It feels super unfair. Hopefully a solution is found over the next few months

cpt is gone

I've been working on an app called Pop. It's a social layer over the real world. You can explore what's around you, create spaces anywhere on the map, post, interact with other people, and make places your own.

I put some starter stuff around Purdue so there's already something to explore when you first open it.

Here's what campus looks like on Pop right now:

https://reddit.com/link/1vu3141/video/1yhps59bxmkh1/player

You can also make your own spaces pretty much anywhere. Your dorm room, your club, a favorite study spot, somewhere your friends always hang out, an inside joke tied to some random corner of campus, whatever.

And here's a quick example of what Pop can look like once you start messing around with it:

https://reddit.com/link/1vu3141/video/fdl3lopzwmkh1/player

It's still really early, so I'm looking for people on campus to try it and see what they naturally end up doing with it. Explore, create something, post, interact with stuff that's already there, whatever.

If you try it, I'd also love to hear what feels fun, confusing, broken, or missing.

Try it here

It seems he has been active here for years. Have we discovered his identity or anything about this beast of a poster?

The pinned post says there’s lore

Here’s what I have so far:

• Has been active for over 4 years. May be a grad student
• Seems to be familiar with science (mentions Sciuridae which is scientific name for squirrels and having an advanced aquarium set up)
• Likes music (mentioned MGMT, All Along the Watchtower, Gorillaz)
• Probably male (said only one person has seen his penis and lived)

What are my best options if Purdue has paused CPT but I’ve received a co-op offer for Fall 2026 (basically today)—should I ask the company to defer the offer to Spring 2027, explore whether I can transition to a full-time role after graduation, or are there any other legitimate F-1/OPT options I should consider?
If there is any workaround or things I can consider do let me know thanks

I’m a Purdue graduate student and an international student. I’m posting this because I think students — especially international students — need to understand what can happen when a mental-health disclosure becomes part of a university conduct process.

I am NOT telling anyone to hide an imminent risk or not seek emergency help. I voluntarily went to CAPS because I had experienced a serious mental-health crisis and wanted professional treatment. But what happened afterward has made me extremely concerned about how disclosures made during crisis treatment can later be characterized as misconduct.

On the night before I went to CAPS, I had an acute mental-health crisis. During that crisis, I experienced suicidal and homicidal thoughts about my former PI. I also did disturbing internet searches about previous graduate-student/professor violence and firearm access.

I did not contact my former PI. I did not send him a threat. I did not approach him. I did not have a weapon, and I did not attempt to buy one.

The next morning, after I had calmed down, I voluntarily went to CAPS and honestly disclosed what I had been thinking because I wanted help.

CAPS called Purdue Police. A CAPS counselor remained in the room while an officer asked me questions about my thoughts, my former professor, my internet searches, and weapons. I answered those questions honestly because I understood this to be part of the safety and hospital-transport process.

I was then voluntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital for several days. When I was discharged, I was cleared to return to work/school without restrictions.

But while I was hospitalized, the description of what happened began changing.

The earliest police description referred to “homicidal and suicidal ideations/thoughts.” Later university and police records started using terms such as “threats,” “directly threatened to kill,” “plan to murder,” and research undertaken to “carry out that plan.”

Eventually Purdue charged me with Endangerment based specifically on allegedly making threatening statements to CAPS and PUPD on June 26.

That distinction was the central issue at my conduct hearing.

I did not deny having homicidal thoughts. I did not deny telling CAPS and police about them. My position was that disclosing homicidal ideation to a counselor while voluntarily seeking crisis treatment, and answering police safety questions honestly, is not automatically the same thing as making a threatening statement.

During the hearing, I repeatedly tried to bring the discussion back to that specific charge.

At one point, the University representative asked me what I thought a “plan” was. I asked her what Purdue considered the difference between a thought and a plan. She declined to give me a clear distinction and later described what I had as, in words I remember, “thoughts for a plan.”

There was also a lot of discussion about whether I was generally a “threat,” which I found troubling because that is not the same question as whether Purdue proved that I committed the specific charged conduct.

Today, the Community Standards Board found me responsible, based on what was described as the severity of the threatening statement.

That reasoning is especially concerning to me because the fundamental dispute was whether my clinical disclosures were threatening statements at all. The seriousness of homicidal ideation is not something I minimize. But “this thought was severe” and “this disclosure constituted misconduct” are two different conclusions.

The University representative then recommended a 3–5 year suspension, saying in substance that it would be for my benefit.

For an international student, that is not simply “taking a few years away from school.”

A multi-year suspension can mean losing enrollment, losing F-1 student status, losing graduate employment and insurance, disrupting a degree, and potentially having to leave the United States. During the hearing, one Board member actually asked me what suspension would mean for my immigration status. I tried to answer, but the University representative interrupted and said that although there was sympathy and empathy for my situation, immigration consequences should not affect the Board’s decision.

I understand that immigration consequences should not determine whether someone committed misconduct. But if the University is considering a 3–5 year suspension, those consequences are very real.

What worries me most is the message this sends to students in crisis.

Students are told to seek help and honestly disclose dangerous or disturbing thoughts to mental-health professionals. But in my case, the disclosures I made after voluntarily going to CAPS were later characterized as “threatening statements” and became the basis of a serious disciplinary finding.

There is an important difference between:

having a disturbing thought → recognizing it as a crisis → voluntarily seeking professional help → honestly disclosing it

and

communicating a threat or taking action toward harming someone.

Universities absolutely need to respond seriously to genuine safety risks. I am not arguing otherwise. But if a student can seek help, disclose homicidal ideation honestly, cooperate with police and treatment, and then have that disclosure itself transformed into a disciplinary “threat,” students may reasonably become afraid to tell counselors what they are actually thinking.

For international students, the stakes are even higher because university discipline can have immediate immigration consequences.

I’m waiting for the final written sanction/decision now. I’m also preserving the record and considering the available appeal and legal options.

Please seek help if you are in crisis. But international students should also understand that confidentiality, police involvement, threat-assessment processes, student conduct proceedings, and immigration status can intersect in ways you may never have been warned about.

Many of you have recently seen the post made by an international student (Double-Poetry-1621) who went to CAPS and was suspended by Purdue.

Like them, I was also in the same exact situation. This was not the first time Purdue did this to disabled students.

I had a mental health crisis after recently transferring schools to Purdue. I am on the spectrum, and sometimes environment changes are difficult to adjust to. I was still getting adjusted to the environment at Purdue where I had a negative interaction after a comic con, and I went and called the hotline to vent my thoughts. I was placed under a psych hold at one of the facilities in Lafayette and was promptly suspended by Purdue for a year. I tried making my case to ODOS but they held up my suspension. Ever since then, I felt demoralized, alone, isolated, shunned. Thrown out of society. I still struggle with severe PTSD from what Purdue has done.

This is not the first time Purdue has done this.

I know a kid from Europe who was struggling with his mental health and was freaking out over a homework assignment. He was honest towards ODOS and OSRR. He too got suspended after a crisis.

Purdue has done this countless times. The international student's case this year is just the latest example of this. I feel the need to share because Purdue has been complicit towards the discrimination towards disabled folk for so long. From Purdue kicking out disabled students from housing in 2024, to my case, to the European kid's case, and now, to Poetry's.

THIS. NEEDS. TO. STOP. PURDUE NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE THAT DISABLED STUDENTS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE HERE.

So recently my parents just left, and I feel constantly sad. For context, I'm an only child living in Seattle, Washington so Im pretty used to living near a big city area. Honestly, the only thing Im thinking of is just wanting to go back home to my parents and friends. I understand that the first week is the most difficult to adjust and that it eventually gets better as I make friends and join clubs, but I just cant help but feel anxious and full of dread.

I feel so regretful that I didn't spend more time with my parents before they left since I will be seeing them a lot less now and even less after college. Honestly, its gotten so bad that I've already considered transferring schools to UW Seattle. Additionally, I know that Purdue is a super good school for engineering (which is what im majoring in), but honestly, the location is what makes me even more upset.

I knew going in that Purdue was basically in the middle of nowhere and I thought I was fine with that but now that I'm actually here im begining to find it more of an issue. And that's what makes me regret getting waitlsed from U Michigan/Georgia Tech and choosing Purdue over UIUC is that I know they are in the middle of a city area. I don't want to downplay Purdue with this post as I haven't even really given it a chance and I know its a great engineering school, but I just don't see myself fitting in very well at the moment.

For those who went through something similar, how did you deal with the homesickness and regret during your first few weeks/months of college? Did it eventually get significantly better once you made friends and established a routine, or did you eventually realize that the school/location genuinely wasn't right for you?

And for anyone who transferred or seriously considered transferring because of being far from home, how did you make that decision? I'm especially curious about whether I should give Purdue a full semester/year before making any decision, or whether it's reasonable to start looking into transferring now.

I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance/perspective because right now it feels like I made the wrong choice and that I'm going to regret being this far away from home for the next four years. I know that may just be the homesickness talking, but it's honestly been really overwhelming.

i’m new to WL so i know absolutely no one here and have just started getting to know my cohort of phd students. i was wondering if anyone else is in the same position and would like to be friends :)

due to some issues with my calc 2 credit being sent on time and all, i am unfortunately taking MA 265 before MA 261 in FYE. Is this bad? i did calc 2 at a CC right before coming to purdue(was a 5 week course) and so i feel that my foundation is pretty weak - i dont know if that is actually relevant though. I am trying to sign up for calc 3 during open registration but I haven't gotten any notifications from coursicle yet haha..

Does anyone know what time T2M Summer results are going to be emailed out today for first choice? I keep finding conflicting information from people versus Purdue's various vague websites. Thanks!

hello, i am sharing a communal and the shower curtain is flying inward every shower. i was thinking of buying heavy magnets and attaching at the middle bottom of the curtain but they would have to be strong and possibly hard to remove. please give me solutions.

edit: i just thought of 2 binder clips with hanging weights, but maybe it would slide off?

Looks like Building Services will be further cutting positions on campus—faculty and staff will now be responsible for taking out their own garbage. Last year, we assumed vacuuming duties. Next, we’ll be cleaning toilets—don’t laugh—it will come to be. 14 years of tuition freezes….

ICE issued a memo last week stating that the work experience under CPT must constitute an “integral part of the program”. It seems that some schools, like Berkeley, are caving to the threat and starting to suspend their CPT programs. I wonder how Purdue will respond.