Summer ideas- meet new smart people

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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>Si for the month of June to about Mid July, I’m taking a night summer course for speed reading that happens every Monday.</p>

<p>I don’t know what to do with the rest of my time; however, i go to a small private school and I’d like to meet smart people from my area. The only friends i have out of school aren’t all that smart.</p>

<p>What are some general local programs my area might have that i could check out? Is there a point of applying for a job i will only be available for 6 weeks? I don’t want a stupid job either. Any impressive ( to colleges) job ideas i could likely find locally?</p>

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<p>Come on peoples! :/</p>

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<p>Palm Springs is boring :slight_smile:
Kidding (not really…my grandpa lives there and I have the <em>pleasure</em> of visiting him too often)
Anyway, what are you interested in? Don’t do something just to impress a college, do something that you LOVE</p>

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<p>World of Warcraft</p>

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<p>yeah but like i said… id like to meet some smart people in my area. :[
But I’d like to do something productive/ good for college.
I don’t even know what i can do around here. s;ldkfjas;ldkf I hate PS.</p>

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<p>What stuff are you interested in (for fun and as a future career?)?</p>

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<p>Dating site?</p>

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<p>^ funny.</p>

<p>I want to go into engineering.
As for fun… art, poetry, chess, soccer (not good at it), umm… yeah.</p>

<p>I don’t want to meet new people to look for someone to date lol. I just want more friends since my school is so small.</p>

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<p>Facebook…?</p>

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<p>Get an internship with your local city’s planning department? Dunno about meeting interesting people, but it might be…uh…fun…
Like I said…it’s going to be hard finding something there. Work on the aerial tram? That might be different lol</p>

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<p>MENSA maybe?</p>

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<p>smart people… go to a prestigious college’s summer program? I know Brown has one…</p>

<p>doing a volunteer (missions) trip last summer was one of the best experiences of my life, if you’re up for it. (:</p>

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<p>Speed-reading - “I once took a speed reading course. We read War and Peace. It was about something that happened in Russia.” - Woody Allen</p>

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<p>^ lol I’ve heard that before. It was great.</p>

<p>@ koto. I’d be up for that but i don’t think my church offers that for kids under 18. I’m planning to do some trail repair work in the mountains though.</p>

<p>@ socalscott. Very interesting idea!! That would be so cool. I’m gonna call them and see if they’d let me do that aha.</p>

<p>But I still wish I could do something that would involve meeting smart kids from my area. :[ Sigh.</p>

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<p>awww. there are some things you could prolly sign up for solo, though.</p>

<p>and smart people generally split up during the summer. all my friends do totally different things, from working to volunteering to summer programs.</p>

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<p>ahh okay. Yeah, i wanna see if i can do an internship and maybe do some other volunteering… hmm, good ideas.</p>