A question

[anthon1]

My parents want me to be doing things this summer. My mother inparticular wants them to be structured and planned and other scary things like that, as if she's scared that they'll collapse on top of my and crush me in a pile of scaffolding and angry little notes from the council being used to prop up wonky tables. Currently my plans are really

Comments

[akahannah]

In my seventeenth summer, I had just finished school and was getting ready to go away to college, so I spent like 4 months working full-time six days a week. That pretty much sucked. Do ANYTHING but work all summer.

[safebox]

Alas, I had a very structured summer indeed, as I was away on a structured and planned trip for a month. I also went looking around universities and went to Reading Festival - both recommended, albeit for different reasons.

But that summer's quite a short one compared to the ones after GCSE and A-Level, so really there's only so much you can do with it - after a holiday, work experience and a course you'd probably only have three weeks, presumably you'll have some work to do, so what else could you do anyway?

In short: if you sort out those things you'd already like to do, then I think you'll be well on your way to being sufficiently planned as it is!

[if0x]

My seventeenth summer? That's going back a bit... hmm, I think a fair portion of it was spent stacking shelves at the supermarket...

[uninvitedcat]

I was working at my local public library as much as possible. In fact, I *think* that was the year it was computerised, so I spent much time taking books off shelves, typing up barcodes, sticking barcodes into books and generally having a quiet kind of fun.

[kasdie]

(I'm assuming it's the summer you turn 17. The summer I turned 18 was significantly less fun.)

I graduated from high school, took maths at a local uni (which sucked), went to the coast nearly every weekend, laughed a lot, got a sun tan, enjoyed myself. I'm pretty sure I even grew up a bit. T'was a good summer. :D