In the spring, for many students the thoughts of a restful summer vacation increasingly start to dominate their daydreams.  However, summer should be a time for students to continue to expand and improve themselves. In the summer students involved in extra curricular activities such as sports and music should take advantage of programs offered at the college level.  These programs allow the student the opportunity to experience college life, interact with other students who share their interests and to improve their skills. In some instances, by attending a summer college camp, the student begins to develop a resume for colleges to look at when the time comes for the college admissions process.  Students who are juniors should take the time this spring and to visit colleges they might be interested in applying to in the fall.  Juniors who have a desire to continue participating in an extra curricular activity and have a specific college in mind should attend that college’s summer camp so that they have to opportunity to interact with the college coach/director that they will be spending the next 4 years playing for. In short summer is not only a time to recharge the battery but it is also a time to continue building on what you learned during the winter and to separate yourself from the others.