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Should students rebel against hard study over the summer?

Bill Fitzsimmons, longtime admissions dean at Harvard, often talks about meeting students as adults and finding they are burnout cases, having spent all of their school days, summers too, grinding away. He said that such kids should take a break---do a long camping trip, or get a regular job, or make it an all sports summer. Hang out, chill out, let study wait for fall. I don’t sense that his recommendation has been widely followed by students wanting to attend his school. I personally think that the student should do what feels right to them, and if that is a summer mastering Farsi, why not? What would be your advice on this topic?

- Jay Mathews

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