Oh, and I also blogged quite a bit, but presumably that is not a distinctively summer activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI find it helpful to look back and review what I did and didn\u2019t do over a particular period, since by the end of a summer or a semester or an academic year, what I did at the start of it often seems like such a long time ago. It is easy to forget how much one did, or that one did in fact make time to relax and rejuvenate in ways one doesn\u2019t find time to during the semester.<\/p>\n
What did you do over the summer? Or, if you are an educator or a student, are you still in denial that the summer \u2013 in the sense of the time without classes \u2013 is over?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Took students to Israel<\/a>.<\/li>\n