A Typical Day at MMSS

(Please note that this is an example day and not everyone will experience the same thing. This one day's schedule is fabricated and your own experience might slightly vary from what is described below. It is designed to give participants and their parents a general sense of what most days will look like, on average. The below fabricated narration is to take place on the first Friday of either session for a student in the Genes to Genomics course.)

7:30 AM: Wake up in Markley Residence Hall. Take a shower, get ready, and head to breakfast at the dining hall.

7:58 AM: Arrive at Hill Dining Center. Hill is located in Mosher-Jordan Hall and is about 150 yards away from Markley. Items for each day's menu can be found here: http://www.housing.umich.edu/dining/menus/#/marketplace

8:40 AM: Return to room, pack backpack, and walk with fellow students to class (Genes to Genomics) located on the fourth floor of the USB (Undergraduate Science Building). Most morning commutes for students are under 10 minutes from the residence hall.

8:53 AM: Arrive in classroom 4151 USB. Our professor is already there getting the morning's activities setup.

9:00 AM: Class starts. The morning is a combination of classroom discussion, lecture, and hands-on mini experiments as we get familiar with the tools we'll be using this afternoon.

10:30 AM: Class takes a 10 minute break.

10:40 AM: Class resumes.

Noon: Class ends for the morning. Walk back to the Hill Dining Center with fellow students. Eat lunch.

1:20 PM: Leave dining center and head back to class.

1:27 PM: Arrive at 3143 USB. The afternoon's activities mainly consist of lab experiments as a follow-up to the morning's lectures and presentations. Typically the Graduate and Undergraduate Student Instructors lead the afternoon sessions.

1:30 PM: Class starts up again. Our professor introduces the afternoon's lab presentation and overview.

3:00 PM: Take 10 minute break.

3:10 PM: Afternoon lab resumes.

4:30 PM: Finish experiments for the day, clean up, and return to residence hall.

4:40 PM: Arrive back in dorm room and check in with assigned counselor. Relax for a few moments and talk to other students.

5:20 PM: Arrive at dining center and eat dinner. Evening meals are available from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Over dinner fellow students discuss the day's events, and more importantly, the evening's planned activities.

6:30 PM: Decide which evening activity to participate in and then return to room to get ready.

7:00 PM: While in dorm room, write emails and check-in with parents via phone.

7:30 PM: Meet group of students and counselors in community lounge for selected evening activity downtown.

8:45 PM: Finish evening activity and return as a group to residence hall.

8:55 PM: Arrive back at dorm, check-in with assigned counselor, and hang out with other students. The residence hall's outside doors lock at 9:00 pm.

10:30 PM: Get ready for bed.

11:00 PM: Counselors do final room check to make sure all students are back in their dorms.