<p>Heaven would've been nice, but I'll take what I can get. What's your summer job? (mine is learning Calculus) </p>
<p>(I want to keep this thread up for a little while longer, just on the chance of someone else wandering here)</p>
<p>MBTA service planning and scheduling, and they are paying me, which is fantastic. Maps, scheduling, etc. It's pretty awesome: I met this MBTA person at a meeting about the 2008 service plan in Cambridge last year, and I was all "hey I have this proposal for a revenue-neutral bus route modification to provide sunday service to 2 towns" she was all "man this is sweet call me if you ever want an intership" and I was all "hells yeah" and then last winter I'm all "do you guys pay people" and they're all "sure" and I'm all "I am so there." </p>
<p>Interestingly, it is the same MBTA person, Melissa, who told me about the summit. So really, had I not gone to that one meeting, none of this awesome stuff would have happened. </p>
<p>Oh man...just faxed the APTA the form. Free Amtrak, here I come.</p>
<p>That's cool. I'm still waiting on the interview date for a biology internship here, but it's extremely competitive because it is the SINGLE publicized (and very well paid) summer internship in about 8 counties, so you have multiple kids from 40 different high schools competing for 2 slots. I'm sticking with the "I don't want it, I don't want it" approach (which I've now named the Homeward Bound Strategy) since it worked for the summit. Basically after the Summit (I feel so cool saying "The Summit"), I'm taking the Calc course, getting most of my college application essays for next year done with, running, and chillaxing. </p>
<p>I feel kind of bad that I might be taking a plane to a public transportation conference. It's the old "Al Gore rides gas-guzzling jets on his way to anti-global warming meetings".</p>
<p>Well, whatever you gotta do. I don't know what the Amtrak system is in your area.</p>
<p>Oh fun, college essays. I guess this is my last summer before I have to deal with those.</p>
<p>^And SATs. And PSATs. And college visits/research. And grades. And extracurriculars/work. And AP courses if your school has them (mine doesn't, but we have Advanced Physics, which is twice the work of an AP Physics course and none of the college credit). And trying to have a social life along with everything else. And possibly getting your heart broken by something/someone. Junior year's so much FUN.</p>
<p>I hang out on this site too much. NYS kids go to school a month later than basically anywhere else, so everyone else on this site is either having finals or is out of school while I don't get out until the 17th of June (and THEN we have 2 weeks of Regents testing). My body is shutting down to an early onset of summer downtime/senioritis.</p>
<p>I do love APs (I took the Calculus). Nothing like three hours of tests with a ten-minute break. Good ol' College Board.</p>
<p>I know Florida gets out insanely early (I have cousins down there), but they start in August. But hey, their transit leaves much to be desired (although they have these awesome DMUs-diesal multiple units, similar to light rail cars but allowed by the feds to travel on freight tracks), so it all balances out, right?</p>
<p>Right. I'm afraid I'll have to leave you for tonight; I have a play for English to write after very diligently not writing it all day. And SAT IIs in 3 weeks - fun! Fun!!! <em>twitch</em></p>
<p>I was going to write an english essay, but instead I went to a funeral. Fun times...</p>
<p>This isn't related to the Summit, but I'm in study hall right now and I just got sunshiny news: I got the biology internship! Eeeeeee!! I'm going to refresh my love for science (Chemistry and magnetics in Physics have nearly squeezed it out of me this semester) and get MONEY this summer! I'm a happy puppy. An extremely overworked, dying-under-school-stress, totally-not-prepared-for-my-SAT-Subject-Tests, but as of right now very happy (and headed for Washington!) puppy. :)</p>
<p>Biology is pretty awesome. I enjoyed that class.</p>
<p>Anyone reading this interested in transit should check out Google</a> Transit</p>
<p>It's an awesome tool for trip planners. As a volunteer, I put together my town's feed (we go up soon) and it is quite simple to do. Anybody, ask me for info on how to do this for your own town: I did it for a six-route system, and it can be done by one person.</p>
<p>i'm going. i discovered this thread like... 2 days ago. (you guys have already seen me on Facebook - GJD). and from what i've read here, i have a lot in common with both of you, although more so Danny. </p>
<p>so yeah.....</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing you guys.</p>
<p>In the meantime...enjoy SEPTA, I guess.</p>