Transitioning from summer to school

Hello LM students! I trust you’ve all had a wonderful summer. My hope is that it was filled with ice cream cones, summer lovin’, and gratuitous tan lines. As students, we’ve come to see summer break as a blessing and a curse in its own rights. This is because after all those many months (2, to be exact) of fun in the sun, we’re still inevi- tably going back to school at the end. We have this knowledge all throughout the break, no matter how hard we may try to ignore it. And when that fateful day comes, year after year, we have to be ready. And it’s not just showing up to school one day instead of sleeping in or going to work. There’s more to it. I don’t know about anyone else, but I usually have to psych myself up for school every morning when I wake up, at least a little bit. Imagine that but magnified 20 times when you have to go back to school again at the end of the summer. Want an example? Here ya go!

I can’t be the only person who’s ever refused to do simple arithmetic at a restaurant when the bill shows up because “It’s summer. I’m not doing math during the summer.” We actively dumb ourselves down during the summer in an effort to relax. For the most part, it works. But it just makes the transition that much harder. Suddenly we’re back at our desks, be- ing dished out more math problems than there are spare ribs at a Chinese buffet. We go from zero to sixty at the speed of a Lamborghini, but much less glamorously. There is no consolation I can offer on this front. Either way, it’s gonna suck to have to force your mind to start working on overdrive again, but it’s what you’ve got to do. Was that helpful? No? Well too bad, I’m writing this during the summer and I therefore have not transitioned yet.

The best advice I can offer is to hunker down and just get it done. “It”, being the transition, in this case. Easing into it is not the right course of action in this situation because the longer you take to get that brain working, the more your grades will suffer. And we can’t have that happen. If you can somehow get your brain working at a school pace, but keep your attitude all sunny and nicely tanned, then you will have a relatively good start of the school year, my friend! If you

went to summer school, then you may disregard this entire article. Happy School Year LM!

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