Which means you have less than 30 days to round out your summer concert season by seeing Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow and Aerosmith.

What’s that? You say you’re much too busy getting ready for that big leap into higher education? That you have too many things to do, like buying a fridge and microwave for your dorm room, and you just don’t have the time to see Sammy Hagar & David Lee Roth?

Bull!

Going for that diploma is all well and good, but you’ll need more than a college degree to hook a high-paying job after graduation. You’ll need the life experiences that only a good show, like Santana or Lenny Kravitz, can provide. Top of the class grads are a dime a dozen, but any job recruiter will tell you that they look for a well rounded applicant, one that can boogie with the best of them during a Weezer show as well as close that multi-million dollar deal over breakfast the next day.

Imagine. It’s four years from now and you’re sitting in the lobby of one of those high-powered Wall Street law firms waiting for the interview that’s going to change your life. You take a good look at the other applicants in the room, and you notice that one’s wearing a Vans Warped Tour 2002 T-shirt while another has a Deicide ball cap on his head and a third has “Ozzy Forever!” tattooed across her forehead. Now who do you think they’re really going to hire?

So what are you waiting for? Time’s a wasting! You have only four weeks to catch great summer concerts like Moby, Jimmy Buffett and Luther Vandross. You have all your life to go to college, but Cinderella is touring now!

One more thing. When September comes and the college dean is telling you how hard you have to study your buns off for that mighty 4.0 grade point average, and that C students never get anywhere in life, we have three words for you to say to him.

“George Dubya Bush.”

Puts everything in perspective, doesn’t it?