<p>I interned at a law firm in New York City. You should try to get a summer job or something. You can also participate in one of those summer programs offered by colleges.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore now, and I’m going to be working at a camp that I attended at for a ton of years, and then at the end I’m gonna go to football practice about a month before school starts.</p>
<p>Fairly certain this question on the Princeton application was one of the reasons I was rejected. Did write a funny essay though. So many puns.</p>
<p>@Pancaked What did you write about?</p>
<p>I know that my last summer where I didn’t do anything significant is going to kill me. Why did the world cup have to take place in 2010??</p>
<p>Party and bull ****!</p>
<p>volunteer abroad</p>
<p>I don’t remember exactly. I wrote about reading which included Wikileaks and the Onion, among other books about political corruption and corporate greed and such. I wrote about a job at a shoe store (which was the root of 8+ foot related puns). I wrote about how incredible distorted my sleeping schedule was. </p>
<p>What I DIDN’T write about was studying a scholastic topic of interest, pursuing research/internships, going to summer camps, following my passions, etc etc. My essay was entertaining but I think Princeton was looking for a bit more than amusement on that question. I almost decided not to apply when I saw that question, haha.</p>
<p>Summer before junior year: PSAT/SAT prep class for 6 weeks, summer school, traveled around China for 3 weeks.</p>
<p>Prospective summer before senior year: return to China for some sightseeing, work experience, research colleges, and practice my viola. :-D</p>
<p>I worked. A lot.</p>
<p>Get some spending money for when you get to college. The adcoms also like to see steady jobs because it shows you can stick with something.</p>
<p>Pancaked, that question didn’t need to be answered as an essay. I simply listed my programs and the length of time I spent at them. It sounds like a great essay though.</p>
<p>Before Junior year:
I did summer school (to get ahead) and the usual football summer training and hell week. I really had no time for anything else.</p>
<p>Before Senior year:
I plan on taking Some classes in Community College and doing my miniprojects like IR Rangefinder based 3D image generation. I haven’t quite finished my Sophomore year and I will start it from scratch and do some computer vision stuff. Possibly Active Stereoscopic Vision or something like that.</p>
<p>Before Junior year:
- spent a few weeks recording my grandfather’s life story about the holocaust and being in the polish underground army. (hope to make it into a book soon, even if just for the enjoyment of our family)
- Spanish immersion program in Costa Rica. More like a mix between language immersion, as well as adventure and some community service. (Had an absolute blast. Really cheap, too! Message me if anyone wants the name.)</p>
<p>This summer (before senior year):
- Working in a Neurology lab at Albert Einstein studying neurotransmitters and proteins in the brain related to epilepsy. Will be my Intel/Siemens/etc project
- Also running as administrator for SAT (and PSAT/AP/SAT II/regular class) tutoring services. Will be tutoring, helping to organize tutors/teaching methods, and proctoring monthly tests. A current senior created it, but I will take over ownership at the end of the summer and expand it to even more towns. If anyone on Long Island is interested: [Peer-to-Peer</a> Prep Tutoring Services](<a href=“http://www.wix.com/peer2peerprep/tutoring]Peer-to-Peer”>http://www.wix.com/peer2peerprep/tutoring)
- Hopefully will become a teen representative for the National Tourette’s Syndrome Association which would let me get involved in learning about/urging action on legislation for TS both at a local and national level.</p>
<p>Well, surely this question should/can get more answers!</p>
<p>Academic camps, research ( with supervision from a professor) competition (math…science), volunteer</p>
<p>2 summers before: family trip
Summer before: family trip + small volunteering job (5~6 weeks)</p>
<p>Perfectly relaxing.
Still got into respectable colleges.</p>
<p>Did someone delete my post? </p>
<p>EDIT: Lol nvm</p>
<p>800 views and only 35 replies.
time to BUMp</p>
<p>Summers before junior and senior year: State department funded trip to Russia to learn Russian. So much fun and so interesting :)</p>