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It's summer. Read this book; highlight it as you go. Seems like a silly thing to do, but I promise it will help you be better prepared in the fall. The advice is basic common sense, but I can guarantee you have not been taking advantage of all possible ways to support your learning. https://a.co/d/03FhGjkc
In my experience, colleges want all their students to succeed. When a student is invited to participate in a summer program before freshman year, they don't invite you for giggles. There is something in your background or perhaps high school profile that indicates you would benefit from this support. CMU is a pressure cooker. You cannot appreciate the step up in rigor from high school. I strongly encourage you to take the help being offered, even if you're not exactly sure why it's being offered. I also suggest you (and all CMU freshmen) attend TA office hours and get peer tutoring preemptively in notoriously difficult classes - before the first midterm. This is also a great book: https://a.co/d/09oJsbO2 At a place like CMU, take all the help you can get!