Reality Check: Summer's Halfway Gone!
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Reality Check: Summer's Halfway Gone!

With only a few weeks until the inevitable beginning of school, it's time to make the most of the rest of summer "vacation."

Amaan Supariwala
Jul 11, 2016
Johns Creek, Georgia
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Reality Check: Summer's Halfway Gone!
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According to anybody you ask, summer's just started. It's only been a few weeks since the official beginning of the season, but in the eyes of a student, summer vacation is coming to its last few weeks. The beginning of July is the milestone for students to start getting their act straight and realizing that vacation doesn't last forever.

The last few weeks have been a disaster in every aspect of the word; the month of June was unbelievably memorable in a topical sense of current events in the world, but now that that's over with, reality is inevitably striking and it's time to focus! As a student, I still haven't started my summer homework, but for good reason, as I describe in a previous article. It's about that time for most other students too.

June ending is also an awakening for those overachievers to start their school shopping. People who like to get ahead know how much of a pain shopping for school is in august, when every parent is fighting for the last pack of pencils. July is the perfect time to do some of that back-to-school shopping for the students who are willing to accept that school is almost back!

For certain grades, July tells them that their summer of free time is officially over, and they need to start doing what they said they would do over the summer. For rising juniors and even some sophomores, it's time to start those SAT classes and make the most of free hours without tireless homework, like during the school year. Likewise, it's time to maybe start that summer job before it's too late!

All of these little things may seem like common sense to the student or person who's used to working ahead and doing what they do, but for a typical procrastinating student, it's time to wake up and begin.

Like I said, June was very memorable, but that part of the summer is over. With only five weeks left until the first day of school, a majority of summer vacation has dissipated, and it's time to make the most of these last few weeks for every student out there. Reality check: There's no time like the present.

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