Hartwick college

A Typical Day

• 7:00 Rise and shine
• 7:30 Breakfast with your own group in your cabin or pavilion
• 8:15 Morning meeting with everyone: get to know other groups, announcements, and games
• 9:00 Start your day with your own small group (problem solving exercises, short hikes, low or high challenge course elements, a trip into town, helping with a fun service project for the unique Pine Lake property, T-shirt design, etc.)
• Noon Lunch with other groups
• 1:00 Finish your day with your own small group
• 4:00 R &R : go for a swim in the lake, hang out with friends, catch a nap, talk to your leaders, sit on the observation deck, do some journaling….
• 6:00 Dinner with everyone under the tent
• 7:00 Open time for small group tasks and processing the day
• 9:00 Campfire program, talent show, or free time
• 11:00 Quiet hours begin

A Typical Week

Saturday

Register and move into room on campus

• Drive to Pine Lake for formal Welcome
• Form small groups and go off separately for initial bonding and challenges

Sunday

• Settle fully into cabins or pavilions
• Begin building teams through problem-solving and trust activities outdoors
• Pizza lunch with everyone
• Meet everyone in the Awakening community
• Walk the Labyrinth

Monday

• Begin more challenging activities and low elements
• Short hikes and/or help build something to enhance the Pine Lake property (a trail, a stone wall, a boardwalk across the swamp, a new challenge course element…)
• Open campfire

Tuesday

• Complete the low elements
• "Awaken To Yourself": unique self-discovery activities
• Dinner with College Guests (faculty, staff, and Cabinet members)
• Campfire with one of the most engaging faculty at Hartwick College

Wednesday

• High elements
• Closing discussions and appreciations in small groups
• Final barbecue with RAs and RDs
• Celebration dance

Thursday

• Clean up
• Pack up
• Depart before noon for campus to join other arriving first-year students