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Since all I took in school this summer was physics, I didn't really learn anything academic that's worth mentioning or applicable to the real world.
However, it was still a very eventful summer and a learning experience.
I was kind of worried at the beginning of the summer that I'd feel really unfulfilled at the end of the summer. A lot/most of my friends went on summer missions this summer, and here I was stuck at school. They were all out changing the world for God, and here I am learning that half of the University's lab equipment doesn't work.
But now that it's over, I don't feel like I did the wrong thing. When I made the decision to do summer school, it was because it was where I thought God wanted me to be this summer and what would help me out in the long run. And I still think that's true. Sure, it wasn't the most exciting summer of my life, and I'm not really going to have fuzzy memories of getting up at 7 AM or anything, but this summer wasn't bad.
I think as any summer would, since one is generally around a different set of people than usual, I got to know a lot of people better. I didn't really get to know many new people, except middle schoolers at the camp I chaperoned before school started. That was a great and incredible experience by the way, and I hope I can work it out to be able to go next year, though that's probably doubtful. Anyway, as I was saying, I got to know lots of different people better than I would during the spring or fall when my "usual" friends are here. I think that's a good thing. This applies mostly to the people who were here at school this summer, but I also spent a significant amount of time at home this summer and got to know some people better there too.
I made a commitment at the beginning of the summer that I wasn't going to waste all of the free time I'd now have, and that I was going to use it to spend more time with God. I didn't do quite as good a job of this as I had hoped, but things in that area of my life were still pretty good.
Oh yeah, being spoiled by a really nice apartment to myself all summer was nice too.
But I think I'm pretty much ready for fall. I'm ready for everybody to be back, I'm ready to have my own apartment back, and I'm ready for life as relatively normal to begin again. Oh yeah, and I'm ready for football season. Roll Tide.