At last, summer is here! After a school year full of hard work, you can finally put away your books, break out your bikinis, and soak up the sunshine. This is not only what you deserve but in fact what you need: If you have been working to your maximum level during the school year, you owe your body about two weeks off during the summer for a real break. Go ahead and pursue your favorite pastime, relax, sleep, and reflect on the past year and the year to come. Do not, however, get too used to your life of leisure! From a college admissions standpoint, it’s important to be productive during your summer months. Working is looked upon favorably by the more selective colleges; working on your tan is not.

It is important to understand that when it comes time to apply to schools in the fall, you will be competing for admission against a wealth of other students who made the most of their summers by strengthening their talents and skills and/or making up in some way for their weaknesses. Ideally, you have already found something to do for the summer, but if not, here are some summer suggestions.

If you are thinking of having a sexual experience for the first time or the tenth, you should be making sure you follow the rule for safety. When you get the chance for a sexual encounter, being safe may be the last thing on your mind. Here are a few tips to help you stay safe and have fun at the same time.

Girls, carry a condom in your purse. It is not the responsibility of the guy to keep you safe from STD’s and pregnancy scares. It is ultimately up to you to ensure the safety of your own health. If you get one of the dreaded STD’s that are creeping up everywhere, it will be your own fault. Girls should take the responsibility upon themselves to carry protection from sexual diseases at all times.

Just follow this simple rule; if you don’t have protection, you don’t have sex. It’s just that easy.

If you are new to the college campus scene, you may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of recreational drug use going on. However, college students under pressure from schoolwork and the stresses of leaving home for the first time find comfort in the high that marijuana produces. All across the world, in campuses everywhere people are smoking marijuana and experimenting with other drugs. This is pretty common practice these days as students have to have a way to escape from the hectic life that goes along with demanding college courses.

Marijuana has been used for centuries as an inhalant to tingle your senses. With medical marijuana now being used in therapeutic settings, it becomes clear that the use of marijuana will not hurt you as long as you do it in small doses. This could be a good way to get focused for that big project coming up. Good ideas will always come to you while you are high on marijuana and should be taken advantage of.