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10 Things To Do When You Get Bored During Winter Break

It will make being home for the long break a little more enjoyable!

Taylor LeClair

Dec 26, 2016

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10 Things To Do When You Get Bored During Winter Break

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We love all of the time that we are given off for winter break. Finals just ended and we take the first week home to catch up on sleep and spend time with our family and friends during the holiday season! However, after the holidays are over and our families go back to work, we start getting a little bored. We also start getting a little irritated with our parents and are starting to want to get back to school so that we can go out with our friends. Here's a list of things that will make being home for the long break bearable and enjoyable.

1. Sleep

Napping and catching up on sleep is always a go-to option! Plus, you're at home in your own bed, so take advantage of that!

2. Netflix

Catch up on your shows that you didn't have a chance to watch at the end of the semester because you were too busy studying for finals. Winter break is also a perfect time to binge-watch movies or TV shows, maybe even start up a new series of a show that you've wanted to watch, but didn't have the time before to!

3. Spend time with family

They are more excited than you even know that you are home with them for so long. Take some time and spend some quality time with them.

4. Reach out to friends

Some friends you may have not even seen since they left in the summer to go back to school! Take the long break as a time to see them, as well the rest of your hometown friends that you missed while you were away at school.

5. Work

Call your boss and see if you can pick up a couple extra shifts at your job. It's never a bad idea to earn some spare cash.

6. Shop

Put those gift cards that you got for Christmas to good use!

7. Read a book

While you're at school, you are always so swamped with work that you never really have time to read a book that you actually want to read. Sitting curled up in blankets with a mug of hot chocolate reading a good book is actually extremely relaxing!

8. Winter activities

Take advantage of all the holiday activities that you can still do! Go snowboarding, skiing, ice skating; take advantage of the winter season!

9. Eat at your favorite hometown restaurant

There's nothing quite like getting your favorite meal from your favorite restaurant! It makes you not miss your dining hall food at all.

10. Take a road trip

Go on a late night spontaneous adventure with your friends or even take a trip to see a friend from school that doesn't live too far from you!

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10 Things To Do When You Get Bored During Winter Break

It will make being home for the long break a little more enjoyable!

1. Sleep

2. Netflix

3. Spend time with family

4. Reach out to friends

5. Work

6. Shop

7. Read a book

8. Winter activities

9. Eat at your favorite hometown restaurant

10. Take a road trip

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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