Go Into The Summer Proud Of What Youve Accomplished
Study hard! The first piece of advice you should hear about having an enjoyable summer is that you should work hard in school BEFORE your summer vacation. Go into the summer break as a triumphant young scholar who has had victory over every exam and paper they threw at you over the course of the school year. Of course, you can still have a great summer even if you got a D in physics, but youll have an even better one if you buckle down and get that B, or A.

Make Sure You Enjoy Your Summer By Planning It
How will you plan this summer when youre busy studying for physics? Especially if youre having a challenging year at school, you might not have a lot of free time. However, the most enjoyable summers take a little planning, and you want one, right? You also deserve it. So, the next time you catch yourself daydreaming about when all of your homework will finally all be over, switch over to a productive mode and make that dream a reality.

Vacation Getaways
If youre chained to your computer this semester, or stuck in the library 24/7, you might be fantasizing about the perfect vacation. If you start your plans early enough, even if you dont have a lot of money, you and your friends can have a great time. Figure out where youd like to go and start a savings plan. If you dont have a job, you can probably get one that will fit into your busy schedule if you stop by the career services office.

Volunteer Opportunities and Internships and Your Ever Increasingly Important Resume
As long as youre at the career services office, maybe you should look into work for the summer as well. While its true that youve already worked hard all through the school year and the idea of work during your vacation might not be so appealing to you, consider this: the work that you do this summer, if you do it, will not require you to write papers or do homework in all likelihood. It will be a different kind of work, and because youre choosing it, it will probably be more fun than what your physics professor makes you do. Equally important (at least), any work that you do during your summers in college will help you down the road when its time to apply for jobs after graduation. If you do an internship or a volunteer position in a field you like, your experience will make you a stronger applicant when youre applying for a job in that field. And, if you happen to think an industry sounds great, take an internship in it, and find out its not for you, thats information you should be very glad to have.