<p>Hi I am a prospective student of class of 2018, and I wonder what everyone is doing after submitting the application and wait for replies. There are so much time till college starts and I don't know how to prepare for college? Are there any good ideas? Also, if I plan on go to internships, do they have to be related with my intended major?</p>
<p>You don’t really have to do anything special. College isn’t as different from high school as you may think while sitting in high school. It’s still just school. If any of your current classes in high school relate to your intended major (IE, if you’re in Calc and you intend to major in Math) maybe you want to spend some extra time on it and make sure you understand it very well, but nothing beyond that is really needed to prepare.</p>
<p>As for internships, if you can manage to get a related internship between high school and college to what you intend to major in that would be fantastic, but that’s pretty unlikely to happen. I don’t know what an internship would really be if it wasn’t related to what you were studying or were wanting to do for a career. Any job would be fine.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that summers in college should probably be spent doing things like internships, volunteering, etc. The summer between high school and college is potentially the last summer you will genuinely have no obligation/expectation from future grad schools/jobs to do anything remotely productive.</p>
<p>Hang out and relax. Enjoy your time off. </p>
<p>You can always use some time to read up on material that’s relevant to your major. If you’re a history major, read some books about history. If you’re a math major/physics major brush up on some math and physics concepts etc.</p>
<p>Most of all though, enjoy the time off.</p>
<p>There are books, like “Making the Most out of College”, that you can read to get a better sense of the differences. I personally like this website [How</a> Is College Different From High School? - - SMU](<a href=“http://smu.edu/alec/transition.asp]How”>http://smu.edu/alec/transition.asp). This is also a great time to pick up a hobby that you haven’t had time for as you’ve been doing all those important things that add to your application.</p>
<p>Obsessively checking your admission status online is an option, but probably not so helpful. ;)</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I’ve been working on some books that I want to write and drawing and exercising, but since English is not my native language, I really want to polish it so I’d be more comfortable with learning in it. So I took some advices reading some magazines and books and stuff. I really want to use the time wisely because it may be the very period in my life that I’m totally free to do anything. Are there something else/some books that you would suggest? Thanks for the advices! :)</p>
<p>Start a tradition for some members of your high school graduating class to have some hangouts during the summer/winter break. The class of 2012 regularly has meetups ever since they first got out of high school during breaks while the class of 2013 doesn’t. It’s a good idea to have time to see each other off, catch up, keep a group going, etc. ~I feel it’s generally a thing that builds up during high school and sticks around after, try to start something like that.</p>