Joys! Just one more day and I will be once again stuck in a hard plastic seat behind a desk. I remember those day when I was in elementary school or even middle school when I thought summer was just the most dreadful thing ever. Sure, I enjoyed the first few weeks of freedom and sleeping till its half-past noon, but after a while I would always grow bored. None of my friends lived close by enough for me to bike or walk over and so the rest of those two months of summer would be filled with boredom, and no other social contact with the outside world. (This hasn't changed by much. I'm pretty much still antisocial during the summer.)
Now, though, what would I give to go back to those days summers which I considered boring. In high school, these lovely 2.5 months of nothing to do was filled with something to do and just flew by and were not all that relaxing either. Most of my summer was spent behind a desk. What! That's preposterous! The pains! Well yes. I spent 8 weeks of my precious summer "training" for the SATs at Elite Educational Institute in their boot camp program. I wouldn't say it was horrid, cause it was definitely worth it and my score really increased but it was high stress and tedious. A test every Monday, along with quizzes in writing, critical reading, and math spread throughout the rest of the days. (There were quizzes everyday) Also there were those lovely vocab quizzes of 50 vocab words that practically ruled my life. I would walk around with my current 50 vocab word flashcards tucked in my pocket everywhere I went. I was a walking, talking SAT robot.
Now those other two weeks of summer that I had to relax and spend to my own accord. I shut myself in my house and became a vampire that slept till noon. What a summer life. So now I wave farewell and adieu to summer. Sleepless nights and high stress days here I come!
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