Students and Residential Staff will be living in Granite Pass
- This building is located at the bottom of the hill and has the dining commons outside the building.
- Each student will share a room with one other COSMOS student.
- Students are housed by gender.
- There are common rooms on each floor where students can meet for work or play. These common rooms will also serve as cluster meeting spots, where students will meet every day to get COSMOS news and information.
- The buildings are set up in the traditional dorms style, with dorms rooms
- located directly off a main interior hallway. Each floor will have several bathrooms for student use.
- Dorm rooms include a XL twin sized bed, desk, chair, drawers and closet space, for each student. One blanket and pillow will be provided for the duration of the program, but sheets will be available to switch out weekly.
Entrance to buildings and individual rooms will be accessed by key cards that will be distributed upon check-in. Students are responsible for not losing their key cards. If lost, they will be charged a replacement fee of $20. These cards must be returned to Housing upon check-out.
There is one laundry room on the first floor of the building. Students will be responsible for doing their own laundry, and completing it during available hours (students will not be allowed to do laundry after quiet hours). Students will need to purchase a laundry card at a kiosk next to the front desk. The kiosk only takes cash. Housing recommends using HE liquid soap or soap pods in the washers.
In addition, Residential Staff will designate certain spaces in the buildings for COSMOS specific needs such as: quiet study space, equipment room, staff office, etc. The students will be given a tour of the dorms on the first day so that they will know where to go for whatever needs they have.
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UC Merced Campus
Students will have access to a number of campus facilities and public spaces.
The most frequently visited will of course be the dorms, the dining commons, and the classroom or lab spaces that the cluster will use throughout the summer.
During free time students may also make use of the other open public spaces on campus. This includes: outdoor recreation spaces such as the tennis courts, swimming pools, gym and plenty of open fields for pickup games of soccer or ultimate frisbee.
Students will be expected to follow all program rules when accessing any of these locations.