Things to learn before going to College of Engineering?

<p>While breaks are important, it would be quite foolish to waste the entire 3 month period of summer break. You don’t need 3 months to relax; eventually that time becomes wasted.
But I wouldn’t take any classes because summer classes are far from fun. You spend quite a bit of money on them (no scholarships), and you pretty much have to work every day for a few hours, all for a class that would be relatively trivial if taken over the course of a semester.
Brush up on calculus (or anything before calculus if you’re not a big fan of math), on physics, and read the first few chapters of your textbook so that you have a relatively easy time for at least a week or two. But learn to teach yourself from a textbook. That’s just about the most useful skill you can learn over the summer.
This kind of task is extremely easy if you have a summer that’s free. An hour or two a day for 2-4 weeks is not at all difficult to spare on a summer schedule. That’s pretty much all you have to do and it will help you any more than any summer class. If you want to do it, learn a programming language in your spare time. You don’t need a class for this, just pick one of C++/Java/Python and get started (if you don’t know much about programming at all, I suggest you start with [this](<a href=“http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/]this[/url]”>Learn Python the Hard Way)</a>).</p>