yatzr

for anyone still in school, you may be enjoying your summer off. I, however, am not. I decided to take a couple independent summer classes to get some gen eds out of the way. I figured I would work part time 20-30 hours and do this and be alright. Well, I landed an awesome job...except I work 56 hours a week! Needless to say, I have very little free time anymore (when I'm not working, I'm studying), and I just can't wait to go back to school to get a break . So who else is sick of summer??

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kurty[B]

sounds like no fun yatzr.

Been making the most of my weekends this summer, and don't plan to let that stop with the onset of school/winter.

k1ng

I can't wait for school to start back. I don't like my summer job :/

My summer jobs usually motivate me to do well in school. I know I don't want to end up like the people I work with during the summer (40 years old working a dead-end job).

Hopefully next summer I will be able to get an internship or something more in my field of study (CIS).

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la petite moi

Dude, sounds sucky. I'm taking an English class this summer, and since I have very little job experience, I haven't been able to find a job. =(

Where do you work?

yatzr

I'm working at a small manufacturing place. We build portable light towers, utility tractors, and arrow/message boards for highways. I work in the wiring department...they put me there because I'm an electrical engineering student (which as one guy put it...is like when you join the army and say you drive a truck and they hand you a wheelbarrow). It really has nothing to do with my major, but it's easy, safe, and pays the same as the hard stuff (like welding).

I got lucky that I got a job. Last summer I didn't think about taking summer classes and nobody would hire me so I did nothing all summer. Now it's the exact opposite.

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Rodney

I'm finishing a five-quarter accelerated Master's program, so I've been going to school straight through with a couple of weeks off for Christmas since _last_ July, and to say I'm burned out is a vast understatement. And the birds are singing and the sun is shining and I'm working on bloody term papers. Program ends this week, but it's an education/teaching certificate program, and I already have to be looking for work because most hiring for the coming public school year will take place in _the next month._ So even when my degree program ends, the grind and deadlines continue.

onodrim

I'm with you yatzr. Summer was nice for the first two weeks when I had nothing to do but just relax and recover from finals. But now, I'm stuck living at home with my parents, with an awful interent connection, many of my friends in places I never see them, and working full time. Summer just isn't fun the way it used to be! I'm very ready to go back to the independence and fun times at school. The only great thing about being home is getting to see my boyfriend all the time, and I think thats the only thing getting me through!

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absorbentishe

I thought this was going somewhere else. For the working crowd, and just life in general. I wish summer were 11 months of the year. You go to work when it's light, and leave work when it's light, that's great. But back in the day when I was a student, I worked extra over the summer to get ahead for the rest of the year, and still had time to party.

st33lr4t

started off breaking up with my women which sucked but ive been finding out lots about myself which is making this summer the best ever.

yatzr

EXACTLY! Except I don't get to see my gf at all until I go back to school (i did see her once this summer though). Yet another reason this summer sucks. I started the summer with dial up, but through a miracle of the gods, our dial up provider decided they'd stop providing...so we got dsl. Still not near as good as T3, but hella better than dial up. That almost makes up for not getting to see my gf....wait...no it doesn't, not even close.

Yeah, I used to go to work when it was light out, for about a week around june 20...but it is no longer light out when i go to work. It's kind of depressing really.

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maleficent

So the humidity sucks -- but summer is awesome...

When you work from 7am til 8ish pm -- it's nice to actually leave the office with the sun still out... Going to work early in the morning, the sun is out - Summer is the only time of year where I don't feel like a mole person..

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sailor

13 hours a day

Summer is great, but im certainly looking forward to going back to school.

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eggers

I hate summer but for different reasons. I don't have a job but I go to school. Unlike everyone else who went back to their hometowns for the summer. So I spend all day completely alone (even my roomates are gone) except for when Im in class with a bunch of people I don't know and can't get to know cause the class is like 5 weeks long. Anywho yea I want summer to end. It's too friggin hot anyways.

Rubyee

I want this summer to last forever. I absolutely hate winter- I hate driving in the snow, walking in the snow, shoveling snow, looking at snow.

Okay, I would settle for an endless spring or fall, too.

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Glava

Right now, I am semi-anxious to start college. However, that will likely change when I actually do start. Such is the paradox of life.

Cynthetiq

yep that's something that I liked once I got into the swing of living on the East Coast...

now I look forward to it as much as I look forward to the leaves turning colors.

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kurty[B]

I LOVE snow! Driving in it, walking, running, jumping in it! Even shoveling it, and I could spend ALL year sitting in a cozy window next to a fireplace watching the snowfall! My favorite is going outside while it's snowing and starting snowball fights with my neighbors, letting my dog run rampant burying his head in the snow, and just getting soaking wet, then coming inside for some hot cocoa. But, I can't complain about summer either, jumping into a freezing cold mountain lake, stream, river, the warm sun, and beautiful plants... All I know is I'd go crazy if I went a year without my snow!

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roboshark

Well, I'm sick of summer for a different reason. It's hot, and there's people everywhere, at least here in the city. Your neighbors barbequeing till 2 a.m. getting drunk, keeping you awake. Kids screaming all day outside. You go to the park, and you can't even find a place to sit down amongst the picknick blankets, old men in their underwear, frisbee throwing students, ugly people taking their shirts off, exposing pale, quivering flesh. You go to have a drink in town, and you can't even find a place to sit down, you're pushing past herds of tourist and sweaty people crowding each intersection.

You go to the beach, and can't even spread your towel on the ground without stepping on somebody's face first. Great fun having kites fall on your head, or sand thrown in your mouth by the sandals of some smelly guy passing by. LOL!

So you stay home on the weekends, shunning the crowds and the happening places, sweating like a pig, and drinking beer after beer, hoping autum will come faster, and people think you're insane for staying home, instead of going out there, enjoying the weather or whatever they think is worth enjoying in this heat.

I paid 600 bucks to have the climate control unit in my car fixed so I can be cool while driving (to work of all places), and now I think, this is the best thing I did all summer. What kinda life is that?

Give me the winter. People stay indoors, and the parks and streets are deserted, serene and beautiful to enjoy. Nobody looks at you in a strange way if you elect to stay home on Sunday and read a book. So it's cold. Who cares?

Summer's really overrated.

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blizzak

Summer seems to have gone by really fast for me...can't believe it's only 3 weeks till I go back to school...

Definitely looking forward to it though, all this night shift work is decent, and I know i'm making good money but 4 straight months of it and you really start to appreciate the school year. And i'll be living in a house with 4 other friends, should be a blast.

And winter rocks!!!!

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westothemax

Summers for me in the last 3 years have involved school (Summer 2002 I took 30 credits. I was insane. This summer it's only 5) and work, and really doesn't differ much from the regular school year. Except most of my friends are not in town. I only really get time off during Spring Break and Winter vacation - and I only go home over Winter vacation since plane tickets are so damned expensive.