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| Making the Most of Your Summer |  Summertime is probably work time for most of you. If you're going to work, you most likely already have your job lined up. During the school you may even be working one year and will just keep on working through the summer.
If you have not found a job yet, it may be a little late to start looking for one after school is out. Many high schoolers start their summer job search in the early Spring, around March or April. This time the most businesses that depend on summer help start looking for applicants. Don't let that discourage you, though, but remember the fact that the closer you get to summer, the more highly desirable jobs become more scanty, having already been picked off by early prospectors.
You can still have a profitable summer even if you're a sophomore, junior, or senior-to-be, and you don't have concrete plans for summer work. The summer is an excellent time to get ahead on your preparations for the Fall's standardized tests, mainly the SAT. You can improve your test scores and college admission chances in a couple of ways.
At first, you can enhance your frequency of quality reading. Stress the word "quality." You think that summer seems to invite students to turn off their brains and recline into three months of MTV, game shows, video games, and soap opera digest. Don't be one of those. It is a good idea to go to the library and check out some classics or some poetry. Try to stimulate your brain. You'll be ahead of the game, even if you can make it through only one good book this summer.
You may also get one of those SAT study guides (get a good one, like The Princeton Review's) and slowly work your way through the chapters. In case you don't want to do the lessons, you can study the vocabulary lists that will help you prepare for the tougher of the two SAT sections, the Verbal.
Summer can be a key part of the college admissions and paying for college process: You can earn money, knowledge, or – best of all – both.
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