<p>hmph, I thought I had already addressed some of these questions, but if I didn't my bad, I'll do what I can here. Teah, they are good questions, so my apologies for not dealing with them earlier.</p>
<p>There is no real "typical day" to give the stereotypical answer. If it's a class day, you'll go to class whenever it is, morning, afternoon, or evening, you might to go a study session, or lab, later at night, etc. You might spend some time reading out in harvard yard, or anywhere outdoors, you might get some studying done in Widener library, which has AWESOME study areas...yuou might go to the Coop and enjoy a book and a coffee or hot chocolate. You might go to the gym, play soccer with your friends, just walk around cambridge, even go into boston (thoug that's more common for non-class-days). Anything more specific you want on that, let me know.</p>
<p>Having classes twice a week certainly does not make you bored. This summer program is particularly wonderful in that most of the interest isn't necessarily from your classes, but from the living experience. One of my friend there only had classes twice a week, so we didn't see him much during the day on tuesdays and thursdays, but he was always chilling with us the rest of the week. There's always something to do, there're always friends to hang out with when you have nothing to do, always something you can find to entertain yourself.</p>
<p>As to whether students are obsessed with classes/have no fun, etc., I will give you a generic answer that I'm pretty sure I've said before: SSP is what you make of it. There are soem peopel there who spend all their time obsessively studying, playing computer games, and/or generally isolating themselves. That was their decision, and I respect that. There were a few there who didn't care so much about their grades, and spent most of their time socializing. Their grades suffered, but most of them didn't care, and enjoyed their summers, and that was their call. Most of us struck a sort of balance. We found friends who we could hang out with whenever, and had a blast with them, but remembered that on occasion we had to stop and study. I worked at my classes, but never enough to sacrifice chilling with my friends.</p>
<p>As to the roommate, mine was great, so I couldn't provide that perspective, but you can, at least for awhile, sleep in another guy's room...one of my suitemates "sexiled" us one night, and we just had a blast down the stairs in another room, all of us spreading out in a common room of another suite and relaxing. A couple people in my entryway who got together ended up spending a lot of nights in the other's bed, and as a result, there was always an open bed in one room, if someone wanted it. If you have such severe problems with your roommate, then i imagine there's some recourse for moving, but truly I'd advise at least makign a concerted effort to tolerate one another.</p>
<p>I'm guessing by "counselors" you mean proctors (essentially RAs). Of course, I can't speak for them all, and some of them were asses, but mine was really chill. Once a week we'd watch a movie in her room, she was always ready to talk about anything, and was generally a fun person. We're technically supposed to be in our dorms by a certain time at night, but as long as we called by 1am, she was chilled with us staying out. The proctors in the entryways around us were pretty cool too...but it is somewhat of a crapshoot, perhaps you'll get a pain-in-the-ass proctor, like half the juniors did last year, but there's only so much they can really do to be a pain (unless you're a junior, then they can raise hell, if they want).</p>
<p>Hope that answers your questions for the most part, let me know if you have any other issues. Later</p>