Day in the Life

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Marine Science Field Lab: Explore the biodiversity of the salt marsh, collect crabs for an experiment or measure long-shore currents on the Atlantic shoreline.

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Work on your literature paper, meet a faculty member to get help with a lab write-up or examine rare 19th-century documents for your history research project.

5:00

A game of Ultimate Frisbee (with a Williams-Mystic frisbee, of course), a run along the river, read out on your porch—or maybe tonight you're on for dinner duty.

8:30-9:45

Marine Ecology lecture on Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity in the Sea

10:30-11:45

Maritime History meets, below decks on the fishing schooner L.A. Dunton on Mystic Seaport's waterfront.

12:00

All home for lunch...PB&J or leftover macaroni and cheese?

1:30

Maritime Skills (Blacksmithing photo to the right.) Sail on the Mystic River, climb the main mast of the Charles W. Morgan, try your hand at blacksmithing or learn a few sea chanteys.

We often say that there is no 'typical' day at Williams-Mystic. Indeed, one day our students may take in the crashing surf of the Pacific Northwest and the next be in Mystic taking a boat out for an afternoon sail. Maritime History may meet on the deck of a fishing schooner one day, and the next day, Marine Policy class meets onboard a fishing trawler to examine bycatch and discuss timely issues in fisheries policy. Here are a few things a student may encounter in a weekday in Mystic.

6:00

Dinnertime...Chicken, wild rice and home-baked bread or spaghetti again! Tomorrow night we have a faculty member coming—maybe we should try fondue!

7:00

Dinner clean-up…who started the water fight?

7:30

Off to the library to study, meet with your science partner in the lab or maybe just watch a movie—Master and Commander or The Perfect Storm, anyone?

11:30

Take a walk by the tall ships before going home...to make chocolate-chip cookies, sit up late and talk with housemates, do some last-minute editing on that paper or just fall into bed!