<p>Razoredsuitcase:</p>
<p>While I’m not a current student at Deep Springs, I am a soon-to-be student in DS 08’, and I’d be happy to share with you the impressions I’ve gathered about life at the college from my visit and the words of current/former students. </p>
<p>If there were ever a single word that best described daily life at DS, I think it would be “grueling.” Students wake up sometimes as early as 4:30-5:00am if they are responsible for diary or feed (after 5 or 6 hours of sleep), eat breakfast together at 7:30, and then attend classes until twelve. Classes at DS are, to be sure, not the kind you can zone out of (students are generally very passionate about their studies, in and out of class, which is an aspect of the college that has attracted many great students in recent years- sometimes even moreso than the unmatchedly exotic labor program). </p>
<p>After lunch at 12:30, students tackle their labor duties. The labor program is diverse, such that while one group of students might get back to the dorms at 6:00pm after a physically exhausting day of baling hay, another guy might lie down to rest on a couch in the BH with his head spinning from 3 hours of Microsoft Excell work in the President’s office. </p>
<p>The whole student body eats dinner at 6:30 or 7:30 (I don’t remember exactly), followed by either committee meetings (the student body committees are: Applications, Curriculum, Communications, and Review and Reinvitations), Public Speaking on Tuesday nights, or SB meetings on Fridays. Throw a hundred pages of Tocqeuville or Faulkner on top of that, and you have a pretty accurate picture of daily life at Deep Springs. </p>
<p>Now, with that said, Deep Springs is an extraordinary place. It demands of its students perhaps more personal responsibilty than any other college in the world, and continues to attract people who are interesting, passionate, and committed to becoming stronger individuals.</p>
<p>My above take on daily life at DS may not have been exactly what you were looking for… Fortunately, there are at least three other guys who sometimes post here who are going to DS next year. Maybe they can help you out.</p>
<p>Are you a high school students looking to apply next year?</p>