text: The classes over the years have only gotten more difficult in my personal experience and before y freshman year none of my teachers assigned any work for me to complete during the summer. I did not know anything about them on the first day or what the courses would be like. It was frightening and looking back I wish at least one of my teachers had assigned some form of work for me to do so that I had some idea of what I was getting into. It was sort of like being thrown into the deep end of a pool before ever learning how to swim. Keeping my head above water wasn't tasking but I was unable to swim to where I wanted. it took a little bit of time before I was actually comfortable in my classes and having some summer work would have made it much easier to transition into those classes.