<p>Personally, so far I've got a week of creative writing at UMass Amherst lined up, and an internship at Eric Carle Museum application pending...</p>
<p>In what sorts of amazing ways are you going to spend your time this summer? Perhaps you've got an extensive self-crafted reading list to get through, or a great job, or a lousy job, or you're volunteering overseas, or being a camp counselor, or relaxing for once. Do share.</p>
<p>I'm going to do research at Hofstra University on native New York turtles... and health doesn't fit into my schedule for senior year, so it's summer school for me.</p>
<p>I'll be interning with Apple Inc., in Beijing.</p>
<p>woooooo!</p>
<p>That's awesome! Are you planning to major in computer science in college?</p>
<p>oh no, i'm in college already. and still, no. computer science is weird and scary to me</p>
<p>I'm getting on a Russian Square Rigger that will be sailing around the Noth Sea, which will be followed by sailing on a Military Oiler doing Underway Replinishments around the fleet which will be followed by a month long internship with the Joint Chiefs.</p>
<p>Cool! .</p>
<p>Wow, these are amazing summer plans! You guys are gonna have oodles of fun. I'll be working some ordinary job this summer, but I'll make it amazing somehow. :)</p>
<p>turtles, apple computers, russians - sigh.</p>
<p>-job
-cousin's wedding in Chicago
-graduate hs (not technically summer, but around the time summer begins)
-working on going to Japan
-if not, travel elsewhere
-hopefully find out we're buying a house in FL
-my birthday
-buy a ton of stuff for college</p>
<p>BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)</p>
<p>oh yeah, it's my birthday too. And... how could I manage to forget mentioning that the SEVENTH HARRY POTTER BOOK comes out this summer?!! I think I'm doing, like... a camping retreat with some friends. We'll read it in the woods by firelight or something. It needs to be sacred.</p>
<p>Oh also, I have 82 movies on my to see list on IMDB=Netflix. Hopefully I watch a good amount of those.</p>
<ol>
<li>St. George's University Pre-Vet program in Grenada, West Indies</li>
<li>7 days at Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego (meeting some people at San Diego Zoo)</li>
<li>Environmental Initiatives Internship @ Lincoln Park Zoo ($10/hr for checking power and water gauges)</li>
<li>Internship with Reproductive Physiologist at the Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology @ Lincoln Park Zoo</li>
<li>Visit to Wildlife Conservation Society HQ in Bronx, NY</li>
</ol>
<p>I love it, I love it, I loooooove it.</p>
<p>The Coronado is a nice hotel. You'll have fun.</p>
<h1>6 is done. We just bought the house ^_^</h1>
<p>Congrats. What are some movies on your list?</p>
<p>Can someone help me out and tell me how to find out about cool summer plans like this that would be good ECs?
Like: doing research at Hofstra University, creative writing at UMass Amherst, other workshops like that at universities?</p>
<p>I hear people talking about these all the time, but I don't know where they found out these ever existed!</p>
<p>My chemistry teacher went to UMass, so that's how he knew about it. Do you live near any schools? I live near Amherst & the 5 colleges, which is a lucky location for those sorts of things. Search the websites of nearby colleges, perhaps.</p>
<p>I'll be taking college-level economics and sociology classes at Penn for 6 weeks, then coming back and doing tons of volunteer work at my local university hospital, going to band camp, and visiting colleges in the midwest.</p>
<p>I'm going backpacking for a month on the Appalachian Trail with my brother (3 years older) who will have recently returned from 6 months in Europe. That should be fun, if not college app worthy :-D.</p>
<p>I live by USF and their satelite (i think that's what they call them) campus's. Actually, my mom works at one of them. But of course that's not a MAJOR university... do you think if I did any summer programs they offered at USF that it would stand out or at least look good on my college ap? =/</p>