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Looking at summer as your reprieve from being a full-time, hardworking college student? While you may have had a challenging semester of difficult classes, gaining perspective on what summer brings is important. A round of summer classes could help you advance in your college career.
If you're feeling ambitious but having trouble deciding what to do, look to this blog for some pros and cons to answer the question of whether summer is a good time to get ahead on your college credits.
Did the title of this article really say to skip your summer break from college?
Yep!
When you’re feeling ambitious and want to further your education and future career prospects, it’s a good idea to get a jumpstart in any way that you can. Over the summer, signing up for extra college courses could help you skip ahead in your goals. Need a little convincing? Read on for a short list of why it may be a good idea to forgo a summer of nada for a summer of college credits.
Volunteering for the summer is a great way to help around your community while also giving yourself a leg up for your academic future. Volunteer work of all kinds looks awesome on a college transcript because, depending on the work involved, it makes you look engaged, focused, involved, and compassionate. It shows that you can put in effort for others while working hard to give something back to your surroundings, which college admissions will love, and future employers will find to be admirable qualities.
It’s never too early to plan for your college education. Which means that, even if you’re too young to work a full-time job, you can still use volunteering as a competitive edge toward your college application. Most volunteer opportunities accept volunteers as young as 14, so get out there and get involved for the sake of your community as well as for the future of your education.
