<p>I’m currently in my sophomore year in high school and was wondering of there is anything worthwhile I can do this summer (waiting this late) that would be worthwhile? What would you CCers reccomend I spend my summer?</p>
<p>read something really impressive–I don’t know what your forte is; if it’s foreign languages try reading something in your second language (if it’s French, try The Stranger by Camus–it’s relatively easy if you’re just learning); if it’s English, anything by Dostoevsky or the Divine Comedy; if it’s science, read some science book, Stephen Hawking? (if you couldn’t tell, science is not my forte).</p>
<p>I know I had some summers during which I didn’t do anything really impressive, so I wrote on my app what I read as long as they were of literary merit.</p>
<p>if you’re into science, do some research at a lab.
if you do foreign language, sign up for an academic program that lets you study abroad in a foreign country.
or get an internship at a highly reputable office of whatever field you may be interested in.
–that would be the overachiever’s summer. you can still get into CC or any other ivy by simply working at any job and write a wicked college essay on your experiences.</p>
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<p>bing: I’m curious as to why you suggest Dostoyevsky or Dante as reading choices for speakers of English as a second language…as they are both non-English writers, I would think perhaps a book by Faulkner or Robert Penn Warren, Shakespeare or Chaucer, etc. might be more appropriate and impressive.</p>
<p>well, i don’t know about chaucer… he didn’t quite write in english. but i see the merits of your point.</p>
<p>I’m also a sophomore, but have no labs, or any companies around. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Get a job? Can’t go wrong with work experience.</p>