Summer is finally here, and with it comes unparalleled freedom a student can find hard to experience during the school year. Often, students have plans for the summer lined up weeks in advance; some of them have plans with friends, others trips with their families and still others who do not have plans at all.
“I don’t have any real plans for the summer,” junior Eliza Griffin said. “I’m really up for whatever my friends want to do. Summer’s a time for relaxing, not planning.”
Still, there are others who are structuring their summer around plans for their future.
“I’m going to work for the same company that my dad works for to get money for a car,” junior Coltrane Pschorr said. “I’ll be building, sailing and moving expensive sailboats up and down the east coast and possibly in other countries.”
Pschorr went on to say that the rest of his summer is centered around these plans. Sophomore Julia Burger is also planning her summer around her travels.
“I’ll be travelling to Ohio, Chicago and Indianapolis for the Key Club International Convention,” Burger said. “In Ohio, we’re going to Cedar Point to ride roller coasters, and then we’ll be heading to Chicago to spend three days in the city. After that, we’ll go to the actual convention in Indianapolis.”
Many students spend their summers working as counselors or advisers at summer camps for younger children.
“I’m volunteering for this children’s summer reading camp,” sophomore Jennie Daiker said. “It’s a camp for kids who didn’t pass the Reading EOG and would otherwise not be allowed to go to the next grade. The camp is a way for these kids to get to the next grade.”
Junior Aiden Williams is also volunteering at a camp this summer.
“I’m going to be volunteering at a Unitarian Universalist youth camp,” Williams said. “It’s divided into two weeks for middle school [kids], then high school [kids]. My role as a youth leader is to lead kids in activities like capture the flag or tail tag. It’s a lot of fun, and I get some leadership experience.”
Other students will be spending some of their time preparing for college.
“I’m going to this camp at N.C. State where you stay in the dorms for six days, and each day you create something that corresponds with a major focus in the NC State design school,” junior Jordan Pollard said. “You’re in the studio for [about] 14 hours a day; it’s insane.”
Pollard hopes to get accepted into N.C. State’s animation program, and she went on to say she thinks that this camp will be a huge help in getting accepted.
“No matter what you’re doing this summer, be sure to stay safe and have fun,” Griffin said.
– By Sawyer Davis
