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School starts in 5 days, and I’m really excited to move in and go back. Summer was really awesome, and for the first time in my life, I’m actually content enough with my summer to look forward to classes starting. These last couple of months have been jam packed with stuff for me to do; activities ranging from working, coding, and writing, to running, watching movies, and surfing. Looking back, this summer was not only fun, but it was also really productive.

Okay, boring stuff first. My summer was really productive. I had a full time internship where I learned so much (see What I learned at Tellme). Not only that, I started, finished, and worked on a lot of my own projects. I started this blog, which I’m happy to say I’ve maintained pretty well for the past month or so. I spent a lot of time thinking about design ideas for WeNote, which unfortunately I don’t think I’m going to actually carry out just because I don’t see much of a future in it. I wrote a lot of much smaller scripts that I’ve started using and on top of all of that, I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with everything involved in programming. The fact that I learned so much this summer really added to my overall experience and to be perfectly honest, made my summer complete.

Now that that’s out of the way, on to the fun stuff. So all the fun things I did: playing guitar, running, playing soccer (lots of soccer), playing basketball, watching movies, going swimming, going surfing, going to the beach, hanging out with friends, and meeting a lot of new people. Truly, all of my experiences this summer were incredible. I loved playing guitar with my friends whenever we got the chance. We played soccer so consistently throughout summer, but every pick-up game was fun, unique, and exhausting. I went surfing, for the first time, with some of my co-workers and it was amazing. Of course I enjoy spending time with my high-school friends, mini-golfing, getting dessert, or just hanging out; it’s always fun. Finally, I was really happy to meet so many new, cool people from work, from soccer, and from other really random places. Even though I didn’t do that much really interesting stuff, I definitely enjoyed all the not-so-interesting stuff that I did this summer.

Even with everything that I did, I still regret not doing anything really special. One of my friends just came back from hiking Half Dome in Yosemite, and she said it was an amazing, unforgettable experience. Apart from the surfing trip, a lot of my summer is pretty forgettable, regardless of how fun it was. And it wouldn’t have been difficult to plan a memorable experience, I was just too lazy or too preoccupied with everything else that was going on.

On the whole though, my summer was amazing. Still, good things need to come to an end, and I’m excited for school to start next week.