1. Take A Nap
Just find a good couch or chair or floor or car somewhere, close your eyes for a while and you’re good to go!
2. Sleep
Super simple, you can do it every day of break! Without classes, all you have to do is find a bed, blanket, and pillow, maybe some stuffed animals if you’re feeling fancy, and go to sleep!
3. Catch Some Z’s
Find any place where you will be generally safe and undisturbed, then allow the crippling weight of finals and saving your GPA after the break to pull you further down into a deep slumber.
4. Rest
Lie down and don’t do anything. Don’t even think.
5. Get Some Shut Eye
Like the name implies, shut your eyes. Shut them from the current geo-political landscape. Shut them from the stress of class. Shut them from the continual destruction of our ecosystem. Shut them and escape to a fictional world of dreams that will soon disappear, like the bees.
6. Complete A Few REM Cycles
When someone asks you what you’ve done this semester, simply say “Oh, you know, this and that. I really enjoy my classes, extracurricular activities, and I’ve completed quite a few REM cycles. In fact, I think I’ll do one right now.” At this point, you can either excuse yourself to your room and Take A Nap, or fall asleep right there.
7. Watch Netflix in Bed
This is a really good pastime, especially since you can do it from your bed. Position your laptop about 18 inches from your face, and let Auto-play take you through the next season of your favorite show. The best thing about this is when you get tired, you don’t have to do anything else. You’re already in bed, and you can just sleep!
8. Toma Una Siesta
For those of you unfamiliar with the Spanish Language, this utilizes the imperative tense which translates to “Take A Nap.” Despite the difference in language, the steps to follow are the same.
9. Play Dead
For the edgier folks out there, simply pretend you’re lying in a coffin. Close your eyes, lay on a flat, soft, surface, and stay still. This is a similar position to how humans sleep, so you can just go off from there and drift off…
10. Eat
Of course now is the time to pig out and treat yourself by eating all the terrible food you eat anyway without feeling bad about it! Bonus: Eat so much food your body literally cannot function, like when snakes swallow animals whole, and fall into a food coma.
