Be Not a Bum: Making This Summer Count

As the summer break approaches, students rush to fill in blanks on exam sheets and professors groan inwardly at the growing pile of papers to grade. However, both look forward to the summer, when students can either work or relax as they desire and professors can do personal research or travel. For students, the summer can be daunting with a full work schedule or endless boredom.

Students can beat the summer boredom by job shadowing, interning, or pursuing research in their spare time. Having pursued several job openings to no avail, I have decided that that is how I will spend my summer - doing research for next year's Student Research Symposium. Doing so will keep me occupied and my time will be invested in doing what I enjoy.

So, as we wind down the academic year - as students and professors rush past each other in a race against the clock - consider what you can do to make your summer productive.