<p>What are you doing this summer that's interesting or productive? Any ideas?</p>
<p>Maybe actually have time to think...like by Walden Pond (or my backyard haha). Maybe I'll write some stuff, get a website going, and do things I never did before. Maybe I'll take up yoga. Oh, I'll probably do some crew in the mornings, too. So not productive in a quantifiable way, but definitely productive in a personal way.</p>
<p>Let's see. I'll--</p>
<p>Read Ulysses (Yeah, right.)
Date (because I'll finally have time/energy for unnecessary drama and bickering.)
Have night-long Tarantino marathons and get into all kinds of fun trouble with my friends. (Get into trouble Harvard-style, that is. Find a friday night to run around naked perhaps? Find a statue to pee on? That sort of thing.)
Poke fun at my friends that are going to Yale. (All one of them.)
Get some piercings. Tattoo myself up. Wear my pants inside out and let my tongues hang out (all in the name of trying to be different, even if I'm completely aware of how stupid and similar to everyone else I look.)
Visit the Big Apple every day. (I am, after all, but fifteen minutes away.)
Find mindless excuses for rhyming. (See above.)
Lose my vir . . . nacular. (Suggestive wink.)</p>
<p>And I'm, sadly, not kidding. =)</p>
<p>I don't know if there's anything good to do between high school and college. I mean, it's kind of useless to attend those precollege programs, and I don't really have the experience or qualifications to work at any job that pays decently. I guess that's almost my logic for not deferring admission for a year.</p>
<p>but there are things to do: I need to catch up on sleep, movies and books. I'd like to go backpacking, but who knows if that'll happen. It's the last summer before I have to worry about internships or something meaningful to do, and maybe I'll just use this opportunity to spend two glorious months as a shameless hedonist.</p>
<p>start a research or something....maybe even write a paper..don't go to harvard just like that! it's good to be doing something and have at least something going on...besides where's the motivation to learn more and more everyday?</p>
<p>guys, would two years of EC's (say class pres, yearbook editor-in-chief, winner at math competitions, etc) help me get to harvard. unfortunately i had to miss the two first months of tenth grade....so i wasn't able to participate in the available EC's for the entire. thus i'm left with (only) two years of experience.</p>
<p>Did you do anything out of school during the year, if you were able? Otherwise, you wasted the year.....they will wonder why you did nothing, when there are lots of service, volunteer, programs, in the real world.....my daughters have been volunteering since 2nd grade</p>
<p>cuz when i started the year....i was new to the place and system as well, so i had to spend more time looking for other EC's...but yea, i did manage a couple of volunteer programs outside school...didn't think they were enough for the year though</p>
<p>Good, it is better then having a totally empty year, if all you ever do is just in school, thats blah for admin people</p>
<p>citygirlsmom....may i ask for suggestions on any specific community service?</p>
<p>Senior centers, soup kitchens, city hall, zoos, beach cleanups, clothing collections, eye glass collection drive, habitat for humanity, immersions, mission trips,libraries, teaching people to read, churches, souper bowl sunday (is on line), boys and girls clubs, food banks, coaching kids sports team, tree planting, park clean ups, neighborhood groups, the red cross, there is so much to be done- it is all there, it may not all be glamourus, but the people you meet, the stories you will get, the good you will have done, is immeasurable....you can't be president or in charge of everything, but colleges do like to see commitment to something, my daughters started with eyeglass collection drives (see the lions club website), and because of all the people we met, they got certifcate of honor from our city, and she is now a youth commissioner at city hall...and we helped thousands of people see better....hope that give you a starting place....</p>
<p>ugh, no thread hijacking!</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm hoping to get a non-minimum wage job (hopefully working on a gubernatorial campaign), and travel to Europe.</p>
<p>hmmm this summer. i will go back to work and <em>hopefully</em> when the financial aid statement comes in a few months it will make sure that this year not all of my money goes to tuition (i have been working since i was 14, and every summer the money went to high school tuition). i will probably be a camp counselor for a week and hopefully get a passport so i can visit my old english teacher and his family in canada (we very close relationships with our teachers at my school, haha).
i think i am going to, for the first time in years, be able to relax and enjoy the lack of required summer reading that i usually have.</p>
<p>There is summer reading for many colleges. But usually only one book, not like the 3-4 500pg books that I usually get.</p>