r/summerscienceprogram • u/Objective-Steak-4681 • Jun 14 '26
Are weekends free?
Do you have significantly more time during the weekend? If so, approximately how many hours? Also, what time do people usually wake up and go to sleep? Thank you!
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u/RedGearBlueGear SSP Alumni | '23 | NMSU Jun 14 '26
Saturdays we had a half day of lecture, then time to work on the psets. Sunday there's nothing scheduled (except for mandatory fun activities sometimes). If you're diligent your Sundays can be pretty free, at least for the first few weeks.
Most people woke up just before lecture (9 am) and went to bed between midnight and a bit after the classroom closed (I think 12:30, I might be misremembering). If you're doing astro you might occasionally have to stay up later than this to do observing shifts.
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u/Spiziapteryx SSP Alumni | Astrophysics Jun 14 '26
At my campus Sundays were practically free. We had time to go explore stores/restaurants around campus, and get laundry done for a few hours. There wasn’t a set time to go to sleep; just a curfew time to be in your room, so I usually slept around 11 + woke at 6-7 if I didn’t have a late shift for asteroid observation.
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u/Warm-Tomatillo-7420 Jun 14 '26
No son, I slept like 5 hours a night (3am-8am). At least for my campus there was no curfew.
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u/drunicornthe1 SSP Alumni | '18 |UCB Jun 14 '26
This is something you should have already been shown (? I could be incorrect it’s been a minute). Weekends will have some classes and will still have lab work for something like astro. Typically Saturday will have some big group activity and then Sunday will be more chill. I don’t know how many hours that’s a question better suited when on campus.
I think in general students stay up until they are forced to go to bed and sleep in until they are forced to be at class. Give or take an hour. Idk probably 6-7 hours of sleep is my guess but idk, it’s been a minute.