<p>Share your summer plans. </p>
<p>Mine:
- Neuroscience research at my state flagship
- Tons of honors and AP summer work
- Traveling with my family for 2 weeks</p>
<p>I think I’ll have AP English summer readings, but thankfully AP US Govt and AP Psych have no summer work.</p>
<p>Going to be working a bit for college funds and such “work at a local gas station…$9.05/hr!”</p>
<p>and…enjoying my time off!</p>
<p>I don’t have much this summer (rising 10th), but hopefully next year I will try to do more:</p>
<p>Working at a computational education foundation for 6-8 weeks (w/ stipend pay)
Playing A LOT of tennis (trying to make varsity next year, was top JV this year)
Study for SAT, as I have to take one in October for NCSSM
Having fun with the family traveling for ~2 weeks</p>
<p>I may also spend some time preparing for one of the Olympiads (Chem/Bio/Physics) or trying to get acquainted with some of my next year’s AP topics.</p>
<ul>
<li>Internship for two months</li>
<li>Volunteer at summer schools</li>
<li>Maybe college classes</li>
<li>Study for SAT</li>
<li>Homework</li>
<li>Spending time with family and friends</li>
<li>Working out (lol)</li>
<li>College Apps</li>
<li>Studying for competitions </li>
<li>Preparing clubs for the new year </li>
</ul>
<p>Lots of things to do! :)</p>
<ul>
<li>NCFL Grand National Tournament (debate tournament. I’m going in LD.)</li>
<li>Youth Court</li>
<li>Getting my License</li>
<li>Constitutional Academy 2013 (depends on if I get in)</li>
<li>SAT Biology E/M Subject Test</li>
<li>Tennis</li>
<li>AP Lang and AP World Summer Reading</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Physics of Atomic Nuclei summer program at Michigan State</li>
<li>Local science-related mentorship/internship, if everything goes as planned</li>
<li>Three local science camps</li>
<li>Volunteering at arboretum and library</li>
<li>Working at McDonald’s</li>
<li>SAT Subject Tests (Bio, Chemistry, Math II)</li>
</ul>
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<p>What do you have to read? </p>
<p>Let’s see…</p>
<p>-Journalism workshop
-Vacation Bible School leader
-Doing AP Lang reading/summer assignment
-Hopefully getting a job somewhere
-Visiting a couple colleges
-Going to my cousin’s graduation party/visiting all my relatives in that respective state</p>
<p>The sad thing is, we actually don’t know. They’re supposed to tell us right before school gets out though.</p>
<p>Oh. We had to read Guns, Germs, and Steel, didn’t know if this was something a lot of classes read or not. In case you DO have to read it:</p>
<p>Worst. Book. Ever. No really. The whole book could have been summarized in 10 pages, max. But no, it was about 370 or so, maybe more.</p>
<p>-Honors Chemistry over the summer to prepare for AP chem
-volunteering at the local library
- AP summer assignments
-crying because my summer is all work no play - training to make the hs tennis team</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer course at local university</li>
<li>Shadowing/interning at a local hospital (possible research opportunity!!)</li>
<li>Possibly tutoring, or getting another job (I need $$$!!!)</li>
<li>A ton of AP summer homework</li>
<li>Practicing the flute</li>
<li>PSAT/SAT studying (possibly ACT also)</li>
<li>SAT Subject Test (Math II)</li>
<li>AMC preparation</li>
<li>Chem (or possibly bio) Olympiad preparation</li>
<li>College research</li>
<li>Bond with my dog (lol)</li>
<li>Try (and fail) to enjoy my glorious 2.5 months off (you know, actually hang out with friends, go shopping, the like)</li>
</ul>
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<p>I am surprised you hated it, we read it for AP Human Geo and I thought it was great. Reddit rated it 17/200 on their top 200 books list.</p>
<p>I heard of Guns, Germs, and Steel, though I never read it. It seems pretty interesting</p>
<p>Yeah, the concept about what Jared Diamond tried to explain is interesting, but I found that he seemed to repeat the same things over and over again, and it was just too bland for my likings (and everyone else in my class), IMO.</p>
<p>-Week at a summer program for executive business or something like that
-Week visiting family up north
-Volunteering
-Working on EE
-Mini-Vacations
-Visiting colleges
-Studying for ACT and SAT
-Free Time (AKA catching up on reading)</p>
<p>-Cross Country summer running
-Girls State
-volunteering
-Working (blechhh)
-Summer Assignment
-maybe (fingers crossed!) hosting an exchange student!</p>
<p>Then fun stuff like:
-going on vaca to California
-seeing F.U.N.
-seeing John Mayer
-going to the beach
-getting a new pool</p>
<p>working so I can actually pay for college in the fall
hopefully a few road trips
writing a lot</p>
<p>Summer classes at the Community College.</p>
<p>Do all schools give out AP summer work? And if so, when/how to we find out about it?</p>
<p>Taking a sport
Doing summer homework
Taking SAT classes
Volunteering
managing to find time to do free stuff</p>