Summer Prep -- Advice?

[DupontCircle]

I was wondering if any current or former students had suggestions on some prep work before school starts. I'm going to have a good amount of free time over the summer and wondered if there were specific things/skills I could be working on -- brushing up on excel, getting back into the habit of writing regularly etc. I'm trying to think of things beyond the normal language skills and math/econ prep work.

 

Thanks!

[nelsonizer]

Play around with some academic organization/citation/notetaking programs.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/zotero-vs-endnote/33157

[leon32]

My suggestion would, beyond any rudimentary preparation stuff with languages and quant, take advantage of the free time because once school starts you are going to have very little of it.