Show i I Summer between High School and College Christian Leikam Commentary The summer between high school and college is not something many people think about There arent aren't any Judd Apatow movies about those three months no t. t tv v shows people just dont don't give all that much thought to the gap between bet the time you say goodbye to your high school friends and the time you enter the less dramatic less structured world of higher education However being that every freshman at this school and every other college is just coming out of that strange time period maybe it deserves some attention for the subtle impact it really can have June Saying goodbye Part 1 June is the month that most high schools are dismissed so this is the time many high school graduates say goodbye to the School Friends You know the ones you copied off of of in class and hung out with at lunch when your buddies you usually hung out with went to Arby's without inviting you Sure these School Friends are your friends and you write in each others other's yearbooks Im sure well we'll see each other plenty this summer because you didn't want to give a legit goodbye but you know its it's a lie After school has ended and youve you've said your last goodbyes to these School Friends its it's time to have havea a generic or maybe super rad summer You spend the remainder of June not doing anything special maybe working but thinking to yourself that you have all summer and you dont don't feel like hanging out with your friends today Maybe you'll call them in July July The month of July epitomizes summer and it really is a beautiful month Every romanticized notion of the summertime occurs in July when the sun is hot and the nights are mild July is an island in a asea asea asea sea that is the year an island surrounded by less pleasant waters Unless you have havea a job If you have a job I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess July is probably just justa a shade of gray surrounded by similar shades of gray You wake up one morning in July and realize that you should probably get around to making some steps towards getting ready for college but then you decide its it's a better idea to go goback goback goback back to sleep You wake up upa a couple hours later in the mid afternoon and have the same epiphany again but this time you take it more seriously July isn't meant for responsibility Its It's too hot in Salt Lake in July for our young minds to be able to handle responsibility maybe that's just me I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess I shouldn't speak for everyone July does fly by though and when you look at the calendar at AMon AM AMon on August 1st realizing its it's officially August you weep August Saying goodbye Part 2 This time the goodbyes are a alot alot alot lot harder Friends realize that their schools are on opposite coasts and that at some point in this month of August they'll have to say goodbye to each other Mormon friends are going on missions some friends are going to school in Vermont and some still live down the street but they arent aren't going to the same school which for some inexplicable reason threatens to make you drift apart School starts at the end of the month and its it's time to get ready for some changes The initiative to tomake tomake tomake make those changes doesn't seem to start being taken until crunch time the end of August Suddenly its it's impossible to find a comforter because the store just got cleaned out by hundreds of fellow college students who realized that very day that they needed a comforter for their dorm There arent aren't any college- college ruled notebooks to be found in the gigantic bin full of notebooks only the ones with margins large enough to draw pictures in Point being August is a busy month and the payoff for all your stressing and running around to make things come together is of back to school Yay The life changing summer is IS over so theres there's no real need to overanalyze overanalyze overanalyze over- over analyze it Just appreciate that you went through something so important but probably didn't think about how important it was wasat wasat wasat at the time In any case school has started and were we're freshmen again but without the implications that carried in high school |