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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8:30 AM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;I usually roll in the door right about now. We don&#39;t have to be there until 9 a.m., but I need the time to check my e-mail, do a quick check of my work from the night before and just get my head on straight before it all starts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 AM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;Me and my fellow &quot;classmates&quot; spend the morning in training classes. I&#39;ve passed two of my SOA exams and I&#39;m aiming for the third. This is pretty critical, too. It&#39;s the one that really dives deep into the insurance industry models that everybody uses. Classes last all morning. We look at real-life examples of models being used in the company right now, and some interesting things that the actuaries here have come across in the work. A new drug or surgical breakthrough can really have big implications for our modeling. It&#39;s a lot about learning the science behind those breakthroughs, for one, then estimating the section of our policy population that&#39;ll be affected, and then figuring out&#160;&lt;em&gt;how&#160;&lt;/em&gt;they&#39;ll be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12:00 PM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;Most of the time, we are on our own for lunch. Every couple of weeks, they&#39;ll bring in the head of this or that department, or even more senior people, to talk about the firm&#39;s direction and challenges. Most of the time it doesn&#39;t really apply to what we&#39;re doing, but it&#39;s kind of nice to feel that you&#39;re part of something bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:00 PM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;We spend the next few hours doing exercises related to the test and to the company&#39;s work. Sometimes it&#39;s just sample questions, but other times they&#39;ll bring in problems that the company&#39;s more senior folks are working on, and we&#39;ll hash it out together and see what we come up with. Twice a week, we work on longer-term assignments that will actually help the company&#39;s work, like updating life-table data or whatever. At least that makes you feel like you&#39;re contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4:00 PM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;We come back together as a class and discuss our afternoon&#39;s work. Every few days, we&#39;re given reading assignments and homework. Yes, homework. When they first give you that assignment, you&#39;re like, &quot;Didn&#39;t I leave this behind in college?&quot; But actuaries always have to keep studying. And my firm wants everyone to get up to speed and get their exams out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6:00 PM:&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;Done for the day. Except, of course, if we&#39;re given homework, in which case I head home, scarf down dinner and hit the books for a few hours.&lt;/p&gt;

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