This summer

I am coming back to Portland this summer. I don't want to stay in Eugene, I want to go back to my family and friends and stay in the little house and be back home. But if I do nothing productive this summer, I'll regret not staying in Eugene to do research. If I do something interesting in Portland instead of research, then I'll be fine. So I'm thinking of taking class at PCC - maybe engineering. Something I probably won't get around to taking at Reed, but which might be good for my brain. This puts even more pressure on to get a job, but I don't know even know how to start going about that. Is there anything I can do from Eugene or will I just have to scramble once I get home?