diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 280063c..fd28048 100755
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME=jupyterhub
 DOCKER_NETWORK_NAME=jupyterhub-network
 
 # Single-user Jupyter Notebook server container image
-DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=jupyter/datascience-notebook
+DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=jupyter/scipy-notebook
 
 # the local image we use, after pinning jupyterhub version
 LOCAL_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=datascience-user
diff --git a/jupyterhub_config.py b/jupyterhub_config.py
index daf5975..d613634 100755
--- a/jupyterhub_config.py
+++ b/jupyterhub_config.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ c = get_config()
 # Spawn single-user servers as Docker containers
 c.JupyterHub.spawner_class = 'dockerspawner.DockerSpawner'
 # Spawn containers from this image
-#c.DockerSpawner.container_image = os.environ['DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE']
-c.DockerSpawner.container_image = "jupyter/datascience-notebook:7254cdcfa22b"
+c.DockerSpawner.container_image = os.environ['DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE']
+#c.DockerSpawner.container_image = "jupyter/datascience-notebook:7254cdcfa22b"
 
 # JupyterHub requires a single-user instance of the Notebook server, so we
 # default to using the `start-singleuser.sh` script included in the
diff --git a/singleuser/Dockerfile b/singleuser/Dockerfile
index 849fa52..8e63e35 100755
--- a/singleuser/Dockerfile
+++ b/singleuser/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 ARG DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE
 FROM $DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE
 ARG JUPYTERHUB_VERSION
-RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache jupyterhub==$JUPYTERHUB_VERSION
 #any additional installations go here.
+
+USER root
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y vim && \
+    apt-get install -y gcc && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+USER jovyan
+
+RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache jupyterhub==$JUPYTERHUB_VERSION nbresuse
+