<p>Smart upper middle class kids do productive things in the summer (think internships, shadowing, research, writing up Intel/Siemens, and writing essays).</p>
<p>If they were * that smart* they would not have so much anxiety about their ability to be accepted to college, and would spend the summer expanding their universe outside of their comfort zone= the mirror.</p>
<p>People who are actually interesting and intelligent, don’t think they are the center of the universe.</p>