<p>looks like chaotic basically answered your questions. my answers are similar, but I like talking about TASP and don’t mind telling potential TASPers about it, so here it goes…</p>
<p>Basic weekday schedule
8:35- wake up
9-12- seminar
12-1:30 - lunch
1:30 - 6:30 - reading/papers, random board games in the lounge, random discussions in people’s rooms, trips to the loop (a shopping area near the WashU campus), visiting the library/coffeeshop, office hours with professors, house meetings (once a week)
6:30 - 7:30 - dinner
7:30-10ish - pubspeaks, if we had them that night (pubspeaks are a 20-30 minute speech each TASPer is required to give at some point during the program on a subject of their choice. crazy discussion/questioning follows)
7:30 - whenever - more reading/class work, tons of general hanging out, watching movies, group excursions into the city, etc.</p>
<p>I basically didn’t sleep more than four hours a night, except on weekends. even though there’s not much “structured” activity, there were so many people to talk to and things to do. And I, like chaotic, was sometimes less than diligent about getting my seminar readings done before 3 am. lol.</p>
<p>The people at my TASP were FANTASTIC. smart, quirky, and fun to be around. mine was also almost entirely liberal, but we had a lot of good discussions anyway. our seminar was on the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, and we had a lot of really eye opening (for me) discussions on race and its value in america and abroad. but you’ll find that most of what you end up talking about outside seminar has nothing to do with the class itself. we argued and debated all kinds of stuff, from books to politics to where we were going to eat dinner. </p>
<p>I can talk more about my experience later, but now i must be off to school! adios for now…</p>