Right now, I am planning on taking an astronomy class at a local community college, studying for the SAT/ACT, and starting my college research and essays.
What else can I do to make the most use of the summer?
That sounds like a pretty good plan for almost all colleges – maybe add in some volunteering?
Would it look bad if I only did community service freshman year and before senior year? It felt wrong to do community service to get hours so I didn’t commit myself to it much. However, I think I have found a place to volunteer that I may enjoy.
It would not look bad at all. If you found something you would enjoy, go ahead with it.
Thanks for taking your time to help me, intparent 
I really appreciate it!
Also you might want to consider a job to try and help pay for college.
Read!!!
Thanks singingwriting and zannah!
@zannah Do you have any book recommendations? I wanted to add to my summer reading list!
Is the astronomy class for credit? If so, make sure you do well…and see if it would be counted as part of you college GPA.
Doesn’t your HS English class have summer reading?
@bopper Yes the astronomy class is for credit so I will definitely do my best.
My English class only assigned one summer reading book to read and annotate but I just started yesterday and am almost done with it
Thanks for your reply bopper! It is greatly appreciated.
Remember that summer courses are very advanced and have a bunch of math…are you prepared for the math?
This maybe a 15 week course condensed to 5, 6 or 8 weeks. Assume you will do 2 hours of study/reading/hw for every hour of class. If this is a 5 week class, then that is 9 hours of class a week and 18 hours of study/hw.
I will be sure to keep that in mind @bopper . Thank you for letting me know about that. I will study my hardest and keep good time management to stay on top of it.