An SSP Student's Typical Day
As an SSP student, you might begin your day with breakfast in Annenberg Hall, the dining room located in Memorial Hall. Then you might have class at the Science Center from 10 am to 12:30 pm, followed by a return trip to Annenberg for lunch with friends.
The afternoon is filled with study time in one of Harvard’s libraries and perhaps an SSP college prep workshop on improving your time management skills. You might meet with a tutor at the Writing Center to work on a history paper or head outdoors for a little time in the sun: kayaking on the Charles River, participating in an intramural soccer game.
In the evening you dine with a proctor (a Harvard College student) and a couple friends from the entryway, one who’s from Oregon, another from Spain. After dinner, a five-minute walk takes you quickly to the CVS store in Harvard Square, where you purchase toothpaste, a pack of gum, and snacks for you and your roommate.
Back in your dorm room, you call home, then decide to work on revising the paper you discussed earlier with the writing tutor. You set off to the computer room in the Science Center and lose yourself in the nineteenth century for an hour. Around 8 pm you go to the Cabot Library (also in the Science Center), find a comfortable chair, and complete the reading assignment for your philosophy class, which meets tomorrow morning.
Around 10 pm you hurry back to the dorm because your proctor is hosting a study break with ice cream from Herrell’s in the Square. After socializing with fellow students for a couple of hours, you head off to bed—because tomorrow will be another big day.