If you have already survived Public High School you likely have worked out some kind of strategy for survival. However, if you spent the last 5 to 12 years going to a private school where people actually are permanently expelled for threatening or harming others, you might need to take an Aikido, Judo or Karate Course this summer to be prepared for whatever comes.
College generally, weeds out all the people (mostly) that don't want to be there (except) the ones there that don't want to be there but don't have a job or the will to get a job. So, mostly this is for kids who are living away from home in a dorm or in an apartment by themselves or with room mates.
It isn't that you actually want to have to use Aikido moves, Judo moves or Karate moves on anyone. However, if you have the moves for an emergency this might be to your advantage. Mostly what a person needs is just a powerful attitude of the way they walk (a power walk) for when in a bad situation or area.
For example, for a male one never smiles (if one is not gay) when in a potentially threatening situation. Not smiling means "I'm in control of this situation. Don't Fuck with me!"
So, people know by your attitude that you are prepared to deal with anything that comes up at any time.
However, for people who are female or people that are effeminate gay smiling might be helpful because then you are saying, "I don't solve problems by physically fighting." This message might be helpful in some situations.
But, if you are used to dealing with anything you don't ever smile if you aren't sure of a situation ever.
So, for girls especially I believe taking a summer course or refresher course in Aikido, Judo or Karate could be very useful. (Not for actually harming anyone but for the attitude you need to not seem vulnerable to other people along the way.)
Also, once you take this course you never inform people you feel threatened by of having taken this course (BECAUSE) when you need it (if you need it) it will be only to take them down or make them unconscious so you can get away. Actually, using this kind of training means you have failed. Taking anyone down or making them unconscious should be your last possible strategy.
I would like to tell a somewhat funny story of when I was away at a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a church boarding school and two ladies I knew running a Montessori School wanted me to baby sit two 12 year old boys. However, when I arrived at their house (I was 17 about 175 pounds and almost 6 foot 5 inches tall) they told me the last female babysitter was tied up by these boys and put into a closet and left there in the dark for about 4 to 5 hours and didn't want to babysit these boys again. It made me wonder if I wanted this job or not. However, I didn't have access to a TV and my favorite show "I Spy" with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby I could watch if I could survive this. So, I figured it was worth a try. So, I was watching this program and very happy when all the lights to the house went out. It was 8:30 or 9pm and it was very dark and I was in a very unfamiliar big house and I was being kicked and punched by two twelve year olds and I got really mad. Not enough to kill them but enough to scare the living hell out of them. So, I grabbed each of them by the neck and squeezed real hard and pushed their faces into the carpet and told them that if they didn't stop this I was going to kill both of them. (I wouldn't really do this but they had to think I would to get them to stop). They finally after I hurt them enough by my grip on the backs of their necks told me where the power panel was. I made them take me there and they finally allowed me to turn the lights back on. They realized they couldn't "take me" without dying and so became my friends and every week I baby sitted them we watched "I Spy" together (or else). We had a great time and the two ladies running the Montessori school had a happy 17 year old babysitter too. Everyone survived and was happy after that at the arrangement.
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