For a summer during college I decided to take a few hours that I didn’t want to have to deal with all semester. At Tech, you can take a class for three hours credit in only one month during the summer. You just have to go to that class Monday through Friday, for a few hours a day, and then one month later BAM you’re done with the class. I don’t dig much on statistics, so I decided to take that during the summer and get it out of the way. And, let me tell you, that was probably the worst summer ever. Spreading stats out is bad enough, only having to go a few times a week, but going every single day for an entire month was hell. It’s impossible to cram everything you need to learn into an entire semester into one month, but he sure as hell tried. I don’t remember anything from that class, because it was stuff in so hard and then I was tested on it, and it immediately ran out of my head because it was too full. I don’t understand how people do summer school every year. I need those few months as a break from the spring and fall semesters. What’s even worse is they offer two summer sessions, so you can take two months in a row like that. I’m definitely not interested in my brain to stop working, so that was never an option for me. I’m lucky, school was set at an easy pace for me, I never took more than 15 hours a semester and I was done in four years. I have no idea why I decided to take those classes in the summer, but if I had taken statistics for an entire semester I know I would have wished I had just done the month cram. It only sucked for that month, but that month sucked bad enough to where I am still complaining about it.

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One of the best jobs I ever had was working as a lifeguard during the summer. Sure, you had to do all the hard training for first aid and CPR, but once you were done with that, most of the time you never had to actually use that. We were always refreshed in the course, but I was lucky enough to never have to actually put my skills to use. Some people refer to it as “glorified babysitting”, which I can understand, but you really are constantly paying attention to what is going on around you. I had a decent tan, I got to hang out with my friends all the time, I got to be outside all summer, and I got to give swimming lessons to kids. It was awesome. I’m just really lucky that I never had to deal with anything that would make the job scary. There were little instances with kids running on the pavement and slipping, tears but never any injuries. To this day, when I’m at a pool I have the habit to be constantly looking out for the people swimming around me. I always find myself yelling at kids when they are running around by the water. I think it’s something that is always going to stick with me, which is a really good thing when I have kids or there are kids around me. Awesome job, I would suggest it to anyone looking for a cool summer job to make some extra money.

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