Random 17 fact:

Seventeen feet is the record for largest pie diameter, longest beard, and tallest sunflower.

Here's a typical day (Monday - Friday) at HCSSiM:

You'll get up, and...

go to breakfast at around 8 a.m.

be in class from 8:34 - 12:34 (during the first three weeks, this is all one four-hour class, and during the last three weeks it's split into a 2.5-hour class and a 1.25-hour class)

sm class

eat lunch, and then do stuff during the afternoon. Maybe you'll play frisbee (even with Kelly!),

frisbee!

or play bocce,


bocceballs watchingbocce

or work on the program journal, or take a nap.

workingonpj

You're likely to see wildlife about, such as a chipmunk or baby birds.

Then at 5:00 (17:00), you'll attend Prime Time until 6:00.

peterwinkler

(these are Susan Landau of Sun Microsystems, Jim Propp of UMass-Lowell,
Rob Hochberg of East Carolina Univ., and Peter Winkler of Dartmouth)

at which point you go to dinner,

then get a break until 7:34 (play frisbee during the break? even in the rain? sure!),

have problem session from 7:34 - 10:34,

problemsession

hang out until 11:17 (quiet time).

quiettime

 

Of course, there are variations on the schedule: on Wednesday evenings, we have math movies from 7:17 - 8ish, so that problem session starts a little bit late. And on Saturdays morning class ends early for special math activities, there's no prime time, and instead of problem session we watch classic and popular movies.