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My most memorable summer experience was when I almost drowned in a family vacation to Bangladesh. I went swimming one day in a 'haunted" pond and something grabbed my ankle and tried to drown me. Long story short, I survived.

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My most memorable summer experience was when I got to meet my grandfather right before he passed away. I was visiting with my family, and it was the second time I’ve seen him since I was a little kid, so it was definitely an important and memorable time to me. I was also able to explore my culture and background with all my extended family and learn a lot more about my parents’ homeland.

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It certainly was a different type of summer, one where I had to appreciate the little things. Being that any sort of far-reaching travel was off the table, small intrastate trips were the mainstay, most even intracity. Whether it was a railbike railroad or planespotting cargo a/c at JFK, I made sure to make the most of the time when I was somewhere.

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Because so much had changed because of COVID, I had no expectations for last summer. As a result, anything interesting that happened amazed me. Whether it was house sitting for my friend’s mom, making heaps of clothes, or taking the ferry to Rockaway beach with friends, every experience was valuable.

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Last summer, I had an encounter with the police upstate. My friends and I love exploring. We picked a random place on the map and took the train there. As we were swimming in the reservoir, we saw an NYPD boat rushing toward us. We were ticketed for trespassing.

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During the summer of 2018, my family was invited to a picnic where we would be doing these events or games where the winner gets a prize. We won a lot of the events and even won the lottery in the end and got a new tv.

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I was between chapters of my life, the march of time encroaching on the jubilance of youth. My friends and I kept it simple, revisiting landmarks one more time, thinking that they’d disappear if we weren’t there to see them, truly understanding why people wished to freeze moments in amber.

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in the summer before high school I spent every day doing something super fun so it was definitely the best summer because I did crazy thing every day like skydiving zip lining stuff like that.

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A memorable summer experience that I had was when I went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I was able to try many different types of foods and explore the city. I was able to take a boat ride in the canals. I also saw windmills outside the city.

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Summer of 2018 - I was swimming in the warm Caribbean Sea with some friends. We got to shore after a half mile swim and we were all exhausted. We met up with the locals on the Island of Saba for dinner and heard some of the best stories being told.

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In the summer of ‘19, I went to Ghana to see my family. It felt odd to be back after so long, but I tried to hide that fact, and try to fit in. It was clear that I had missed a lot throughout the years, which I now regret.

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In the summer of 2015, my parents signed me up for a small robotics camp at CMU. We would be given a challenge to complete every day and solved it using a lego robotics kit. The camp was so impactful that it was what lead me to go into engineering.

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My days felt neverending, sunrises and sunsets, days stretching into the next, filled with late-night walks and hushed conversations easing closed my front door, hoping my parents wouldn’t wake up. In the day there were trips to the beach, with teeth chattering and sandy towels, I was cold but happy.

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During the summer of 2018 I was outside everyday. Life was good as I had finished Middle school so I felt relieved. I bonded very closely with some friends and visited many places during the summer. It was a very happy time that gave me many life lessons as well.

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A memorable summer experience I had over Covid was when me and my friends figured out how to use an online streaming service and we were able to binge watch movies together. At that time it was difficult to find a streaming service and we had searched for days for one.

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The summer of 2018 feels like a lost memory. The plan was amazing: bring my friend to my dad's house, then go to Japan. It was terrible. She got appendicitis, and it left a scar. I gained 20 lbs, started high-school and forgot who I was. Or I’m just dramatic.

Germany, 2019, the clock ticked endlessly for weeks. My sister finally arrived, to Austria and the alpes before taking off from Munich.“no WiFi”bugged me, even though it was beautiful. When I landed, he ignored me, and I left for China. It was just lonely, I cried on WeChat endlessly.

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The city had an eerie filter to it. The placement of everything was the same, I knew the streets like the back of my hand. Yet most storefronts had their metal gates rolled down. No one was bustling in and out of shops, or sipping coffee at small tables outside.

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In the summer of freshman year, I went to NYU to do a film program. I met many unique individuals that shared a similar passion for video. While we worked together on the project, I’ll never forget the impact those people have had on the way I view the world.

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Switzerland was a treat, and being in Interlaken makes me feel relax. What's more relaxing is when I was 3000 feet up in the sky diving down. The cold breeze was soothing.

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I am in a plane to China. I sit in the middle between my brother and a stranger girl. My brother moves to the seats in front of us and asks me to come. I declined as the stranger girl has air sickness and I wanted to provide help if she needed it.

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In 2017, my dad drove me and my family to Atlanta for one of his work trips. Although the car ride was one of the longest and worst I’ve ever sat through, we were rewarded with the amazing experience that came along with the trip.

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It was the summer of my freshman year where I went back to Winner , SD to visit my parents. Everything felt familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Throughout the whole summer my parents took me on joyous rides out into the prairie and farmlands.

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During Summer of 2019 was fun. One memory that comes to mind is when i linked up with old middle school friends and we saw the new Spiderman movie. Its a tradition of ours to see marvel movies on release. It reset my mental state for a bit. Very helpful!

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For the summer of 2019, my parents signed me up for a volunteering trip in Alaska. I met a bunch of cool people from across the 50 states and, while I hated my parents for signing me up in the moment, I look back at it thankful for the experience.

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During Summer 2020 I got an escape from the pandemic by going to the Hamptons in Long Island. Me and my friend stayed in an airBnB by the beach and hung out with our friends who lived there. We did other activities such as tubing on the back of a boat.

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Summer of 2019. Life was good. There was no virus like the summer that was to follow, and I had the most friends I’ve ever had. I went over to Charlotte to see my cousins, and funnily enough, I had my worst birthday there, in my best summer.

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For my 10th birthday, my parents bought me a bike. However it was never used past the day it was bought. Two years later, I came across a very similar bike on my way to prep. That very same day, I decided to overcome my failure two years ago. All it took was just ride down a hill.

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My mom signed me up for an online coding class during the summer. Because there was a guaranteed stipend at the end of the 6 weeks, I agreed to do it. It felt like a waste of time, because I was forced to spend week days on the computer most of the day.