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Monday, June 13, 2016
Summer Before College
Back in my day, summer was meant to be a vacation. I took a few summer school classes to get ahead, but I didn't pay much attention to SATs, and never toured any colleges. By early Spring of my senior year, I’d been accepted to my top choice school. After that, I checked out.

I'm not sure students can get away with that anymore, but I'd sure dare them to try. I left for a European backpacking adventure with my best friend just days after high school graduation. It meant that I missed my late summer college orientation. I didn't meet with my college counselor for help in selecting classes and took a few I'd already tested out of. I still graduated.

Of course, it's all in my rearview mirror, and times have changed. Still, I think the summer before college is unlike any other you'll have again. For better or worse, you've probably committed to a school. You probably have no real idea what your next four years will look like. People will tell you they'll be the best of your life. Trust them.

They say that liminal space is fertile ground for personal growth. Embrace the anxiety of the unknown. It's okay not to be in control. You've done the work you needed to do in order to get where you're going.

Leap.

The net will appear. And before you know it, college will be in your rearview mirror too.

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