<p>Please, describe what is a a typical Yale student's day? It will be better if you decsribe two - Wednesday, for eg, and a weekend day.</p>
<p>Pass out at 3, wake up at 10, go out to eat then do it again</p>
<p>yuliyabars is an admitted student from Russia deciding upon Yale and some other top schools. It’s a legitimate question.</p>
<p>Sorry, for some reason I had a strong urge to be facetious.</p>
<p>Yuliya, I think you’re not getting any real responses to this question because it’s a bad question. There is no such thing as a “typical Yale student” or “typical Princeton student”. Their days vary a lot, based on what they are studying, what else they are doing, which year of college they are in, and maybe even semester to semester. </p>
<p>Generally, on weekdays people will have two or three classes a day, of one to one-and-a-half hours each, maybe only one or none on Friday. There may be a lab in there, which could take 40 minutes or 5-6 hours, depending on the course and the student. There may be more than one lab (but then not likely the same number of classes). Additional time will be spent studying, working at a paying job, working on extracurricular activities (newspaper, gym, athletic teams, singing groups, drama, political groups, etc.), hanging out talking with friends, often at meals or after them, going to parties, dancing, hooking up, drinking . . . or not. Or sometimes yes and sometimes no.</p>
<p>Some people do the minimum school work to get by, and concentrate on other activities. For others, their lives revolve around their classes and studying, and everything else takes second place. Some people get drunk or high every day, or almost; others never; most people are somewhere in between. People who like to go to parties go to a lot of parties; people who don’t don’t. (My wife and I were both Yale undergraduates at the same time. I probably averaged 4 parties a week, for at least a few hours, but that was with going to fewer of them my senior year. She probably averaged under 4 parties a year – college parties were her idea of hell. None of that stopped us from being friends and falling in love.)</p>
<p>On weekends, it will be all the same stuff, except no classes, more parties, more likelihood of getting drunk and/or hooking up if you want to, and occasional trips into New York City (if you are talking about Yale or Princeton) or some other attractive place. In the fall, watching football is important to some people (and playing it to others, but that’s probably not you).</p>
<p>What I just wrote will be true at Yale, at Princeton, at Stanford, and pretty much anywhere that is anything like them. The only huge difference is that people spend a lot more time outdoors at Stanford, because they can, and probably work a little less. The place is full of the exactly the same people you would find at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, but there’s a tacit agreement among all of them (including the faculty) not to be quite so intense about work.</p>