The three students share a room attached to the main barn and wake in the morning to head off to classes or to start daily chores at 8 a.m. The chores consist of anything from feeding the sheep with grain and hay at the various barns to moving the sheep from pasture to pasture, bedding the sheep or checking on the lambs.

“We might come back, work in between classes or we’ll just work on a different day,” Owens said.

The sheep, however, only occupy the students from the morning chores until they finish, and sparingly throughout the evening, at which point the normal student life emerges with video games, group projects and homework assignments.

“In the dorm it’s pretty contained, the only place you can go out is maybe go to the cafeteria to meet new people. Where here, there’s new workers here, we can have a lot more room to go hang out, we can go play whiffle ball out on the fields. It’s just a lot more freedom being out here,” Owens said.

The experiences, according to Owens and animal science junior Andrew Weaver, are similar to the normal college experience, although the typical act of staying up late and sleeping in turns into staying up late and getting up early. However, all three would agree the heavy workload is worth it.