<p>Status:
Upcoming junior.
Decent grades, decent ECs, decent tests, decent rigor, decent just about everything. In short, quite average.</p>
<p>My summer, however, has been anything but decent. Aside from SAT prep courses, (okay, okay, sorry, but we all know it's a flawed test,) I'm not doing anything. Really. Nothing. Okay, I've read the "Are Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer Back in Vogue?" post, but this is still unnerving, especially given that the rest of the universe appears to be doing some sort of summer school, internship, job, or research program at some college campus or the other.
I know it's almost August. I know school starts in a month. I know I'm quite screwed. I know I'm being paranoid. </p>
<p>I'm attempting to set up a club- a chapter for the Jaycees (<a href="http://www.usjaycees.org)-%5B/url%5D">www.usjaycees.org)-</a> in my school, so I'm working on that, and I'm also doing volunteering here and there, with the Red Cross and hospitals and such, but nothing significant.
This whole taking initiative thing- I mean, I have ideas, but I don't know which to go with. So, I'm requesting a sliver of your superior wisdom.</p>
<p>Thanks a two-thousand-lbs-load. Concrete advice and otherwise much appreciated.</p>
<p>What exactly are you asking? For information on which EC's to choose?</p>
<p>Sorry I wasn't clear.
Things that I can do/start doing now, before school starts, and any advice on what to think about doing next summer, or even doing the school year. ECs, competitions, etc.- anything that falls under the category of "taking initiative," a phrase I've heard used several times but have not yet been able to appropriate.</p>
<p>Where do you want to go to college? What are you passionate about? What do you want to study in college? </p>
<p>Once you answer those questions, finding the academic and EC activities that you would like to pursure becomes a lot easier.</p>
<p>I actually no nothing about binomial. I just spammed the 1 and 0 keys.
Anyway, Poisonous- thanks for the advice. As for that- I'm looking to go into med, practical, though I don't know what specific field, as of yet. Pre-Med, for sure. As for my little interests when it comes to science, I'm into the whole using organisms for human benefit, especially bacterial colonies/protein synthesis. That whole thing.
I'm looking into doing competitions, i.e. YES and SIEMENS, but I want to "take initiative" (a term I've heard often but haven't appropriated) in the "real world."
Would you have any recommendations there? Internships? Publishing? etc.
Thanks again.</p>
<p>How about you think about what you like to do and then do them?</p>