INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Figure out how much work you have to get done over the summer. This will allow you to break your workload up into discrete, manageable sections. Gather all your assignments together and make a list of all you need to get done. Seeing the assignments clearly laid out will give you an idea of how to pace your work. On your first day of vacation, take a half-hour to plan out your study schedule for the summer. This simple exercise will dramatically reduce the stress you feel as you approach your summer homework. A well-planned schedule will make it so you never have to wonder if you’re getting behind. Let your friends and family know which times you are studying so they won’t bother you. Plan to devote one to two hours a day, five days a week, to studying. If you split up your assignments into the number of weeks you have to complete your work, you’ll never get off track.  If your assignment is to read a book, total up the number of pages in the book and divide it into the number of days in your summer vacation. For example, if the assigned book is 360 pages long and your summer vacation is 90 days long, divide 360 by 90, which equals 4. That means you have to read 4 pages per day to finish the book over the summer. Not too bad! If your assignment is to complete four chapters of a math textbook, look at the practice problems for the four chapters and add up the total number. Then divide that number by the number of days in your summer vacation. For example, if there are 225 questions per chapter, that means you need to complete 900 problems over the summer. Divide 900 by 90, which equals 10. That means you need to complete 10 math problems a day to complete all four chapters by the end of the summer. If you have more than one subject to get done over the summer, try breaking up your days into different subjects. For example, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday you might do reading assignments, and on Tuesday and Friday, you might work on math problems. ” We all have dead time in our schedules when we’re not doing much. Use that time to work on assignments that you may have missed or to work ahead so you don’t have to feel stressed out on your days off. For example, if you’re flying somewhere for a family vacation, that’s a perfect time to get a chapter read or a few math problems completed. It’s inevitable that you’ll have to miss a few days of school work for birthdays, parties, or vacations. Include these in your schedule up front so you can plan around them from the get-go. For example, if your family is planning on taking a four-day vacation over the Fourth of July, mark these days off on your calendar since you probably won’t get any work done.

SUMMARY: Assess your workload. Make a schedule. Pace yourself. Break up your work by subject. Work during “dead times. Include days off on your schedule.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: At this point, you can also brush on some liquid latex or white school glue to the cuticle area around your nails. This way, once you are done with your manicure, all you have to do is peel off the liquid latex or glue off, and all of the excess powder, nail polish, and Sharpie will come right with it. You can use this Sharpie-on-mirror powder technique on UV gel, non-UV gel, and regular nail polish. If you are using UV gel nail polish, let it cure under a LED lamp, about 30 seconds. If you are using non-UV gel nail polish or regular nail polish, let it dry completely. You can speed up the drying process on regular nail polish by dipping them into icy water—just be sure to dry them off with a tissue afterwards! This step is very important, and you must be careful with the timing. If you don't let the top coat cure or dry long enough, it will be sticky, and you'll get a messy finish. If you wait too long, especially with the non-UV gel and regular top coat, the powder may not stick.  If you are using UV gel top coat, let it cure under an LED lamp for 30 to 60 seconds. If you are using a non-UV gel top coat or a regular top coat, wait until it feels dry to the touch. It needs to feel rubbery, but not tacky or sticky.

SUMMARY: Prep your nails by filing and buffing them. Let your nail polish dry or cure. Let the top coat dry or cure.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The earlier you return to your normal pattern of interaction with your friend, the easier and less awkward it will be between the two of you. Returning to the normal way you spend time with them will show you’ve accepted and moved on from the rejection. Avoiding each other will only increase awkwardness and keep you both from returning to friendship. You’ll want to return to your normal ways of communicating and spending time with your friend, with a few exceptions. Now that you’re trying to rebuild your friendship, you might want to do some things differently so as to avoid catching feelings again. If there’s too much pressure to act differently around each other, you may not be able to rekindle the friendship. Some boundaries to set include:  Avoid flirtatious behavior, touching, and sexual innuendo. Be careful when talking about their love life and dating other people. Avoid holding out hope that they’ll change or fall in love with you later. Make sure you make time for other interests and activities. Explore other friendships and dating other people. This will help you move on from any feelings you had for your friend. Be sure to develop other friendships where you can discuss love and dating more openly than you might with your friend. Explore what made you decide to try to take your friendship beyond its current status. Reexamine if you read too much into their behavior, if you typically fall for friends or others who aren’t really available to you, or if you developed too much intimacy with your friend too soon. Talk about these patterns with a counselor or a friend who knows you well so that you can prevent falling for your friend again, or falling for another friend. These patterns could occur because:  You've been hurt in the past and are scared of real commitment. You want to protect yourself from future rejection in a relationship by choosing someone who is already unavailable or uninterested. You don't believe you're deserving or worthy of love. Take heart in the fact that your crush on your friend has taught you what you value in a relationship. You’ve learned what you appreciate in a significant other and what’s attractive to you. Apply that knowledge to other relationships. Learn to grow the intimacy you’ve shared with your friend in other relationships.

SUMMARY: Return to normal. Create new, healthy boundaries. Develop other relationships and interests. Look at your patterns. Learn and move on.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Don’t practice punching by throwing punch after punch. Instead, allow your muscles to breathe and relax after a punch. After the tiredness fades, practice again. Letting your muscles take a break will allow every punch to be your best punch. Practicing this way will teach your body only to have the best, complete punches, rather than ineffective and weak throws. Don’t worry about speed at first. It is more important to throw a proper punch. Think of it this way: If you can’t throw a proper punch, it doesn’t matter how fast the poor punch is.

SUMMARY:
Take a break.