Spend A Summer Day is designed to help you learn about admissions, academics, and student life at Penn State.

Be sure to make your reservation and create your personalized itinerary. You may also want to look at information about travel and lodging. Below is a list of the day’s activities.

Spend A Summer Day Activities

8:00 a.m.
Arrival and registration begins 
Alumni Hall of the Hetzel Union Building (HUB)

9:15 a.m.
Admissions and student financial aid presentation

Customize the rest of your day based on the activities that fit your interests.

10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

• Academic presentations
• Penn State student panel
• Campus and residence hall tours
• Information Fair about student activities and services
• Fitness Facility Visit

11:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

• Academic presentations
• Campus and residence hall tours
• Information Fair about student activities and services
• Fitness Facility Visit
• Schreyer Honors College Presentation
• Lunch on your own at various locations on campus*

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• Facilities tours, receptions, and additional information sessions
• Campus and residence hall tours
• Information Fair about student activities and services
• Fitness Facility Visit
• Penn State Student Panel
• Lunch on your own at various locations on campus*

2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

• Academic presentations
• Schreyer Honors College Presentation
• Fitness Facility Visit
• Campus and residence hall tours
• Information Fair about student activities and services
• Lunch on your own at various locations on campus* (through 2:30 p.m.)

3:10 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• Academic presentations
• Campus and residence hall tours

Other key points of interest you may want to visit on your own include:

• Centre County/Penn State Visitor Center
• Matson Museum of Anthropology
• Palmer Museum of Art (Closed Mondays)
• Pasquerilla Spiritual Center - Eisenhower Chapel
• Penn State All-Sports Museum (Closed Mondays)
• The Nittany Lion Shrine

Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. Remember to check the weather and be prepared to bring bottled water and umbrellas.

* Plan for lunch at one of these reasonably priced eateries:

• Blue Chip Bistro, Business Building
• Hetzel Union Building Eateries
• Otto’s Cafe, Kern Building
• Reese’s Cafe, IST Building
• Berkey Creamery (University Creamery)