Thinking of Summer . . .

It may not seem very summery these days, but trust me, summertime's just around the bend.

So, for that matter, is summer school at Nassau.  If you click the "Summer Courses 2014 " link on the NCC homepage (https://www.ncc.edu/admissions/registrar/summer.shtml), you'll find plenty of useful information about summer classes, including a list of everything being offered.

If you're just out of high school, you may associate summer school with unhappy kids in hot classrooms being taught by teachers who look like they'd rather be somewhere else.  You may even equate summer classes with people unable to get their academic acts together.   

Not so at NCC.

To be sure, some people use summer sessions to repeat classes that haven't gone well during the previous semester.  But students also take summer courses for other reasons: to graduate early, to lighten their course load in the coming academic year, to tackle a course best taken by itself, even to get something they're not wild about out of the way.

And unlike high school, NCC's summer classes don't take up the entire summer.  Summer Session I, for example, starts right after Memorial Day and ends in late June. The second session gets going just before July 4 and finishes on July 31.  And the third (and shortest) session runs all of three weeks in August.  So it's possible to take a course or two in a summer session and still have most of the summer free for work, vacation, or whatever else is going on.

And just in case you're wondering, summer classes are usually held in air-conditioned classrooms--so you won't feel cramped or uncomfortable.

You could even have a good time!

Is a summer class for you?  Depends on work, vacation, and other June/July/August plans.  Keep in mind, of course, that summer classes move quickly; you have to leave time to keep up. 

But if you think it makes sense, for whatever reason, to take classes this summer, now's a good time to speak with an advisor and register.  Though NCC's summer offerings are pretty extensive, classes do fill up.  You definitely don't want to miss out.

Summer's coming.  What are your plans?