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The College Students' Winter Break To-Do List

A list of all the things you can do now that you actually have free time.

Dec 12, 2016

The College Students' Winter Break To-Do List

Now that finals week is finally over (or in its final stages), you can do all of the tasks that you’ve been putting off until now – or do the same things that you have already been doing without feeling guilty for doing them. Winter break is here, so it is time to relax and enjoy the season, possibly by doing some of the following:

1. Actually pack for winter break, which you’ve been neglecting to do since returning back to campus from Thanksgiving break.

2. Talk to all the friends you haven’t seen in the last two weeks because you have had very little human interaction outside of studying.

3. Officially say goodbye to all of the classes that you have just finished by returning all of your textbooks.

4. Travel home, listening to holiday music for the entirety of the drive.

5. Take a nap without having to worry how much study-time you are wasting in the process.

6. Eat some home-cooked food – you know, the kind not made in bulk at your school’s dining hall.

7. Play with all your pets who probably thought you disappeared into thin air because you’ve been gone so long.

8. See all the friends from your hometown that you haven’t seen since August.

9. Watch all of your favorite holiday-themed TV specials without feeling guilty that you’re watching TV instead of studying.

10. Be able to actually enjoy those holiday-themed TV specials now that you are not watching them just to procrastinate from studying.

11. Actually go gift shopping for all of your loved-ones, now that you have free time.

12. Anxiously wait for you final grades to be released.

13. Read a book for pleasure, not for an assignment.

14. Enjoy some actual holiday decorations, not the cheap and/or make shift decorations that were on display all around your dorm or apartment building.

15. Bake holiday cookies now that you have full access to an actual kitchen and actual ingredients.

16. Pick up all of the hobbies that you have been neglecting all semester because you had absolutely no time for them.

17. Sleep in as late as you want to, seeing as you no longer have to wake up for your 8am classes.

18. Pity your bank account now that you have emptied half of it on gifts for the holiday season.

19. Make a list of New Year’s resolutions that you may very well forget about and/or neglect as soon as you return to campus.

20. Laugh at all the students still in grade school who have to return to school immediately after New Year’s Day.

21. Cry because you know that you’re next to return to school.

22. Wish for the break to last longer because you were just settling into your stress-free winter break schedule.

23. Begrudgingly gather all of the supplies and textbooks that you will need for the spring semester.

24. Try to fit all of your gifts from the holidays into your car to take them back to school.

25. Possibly end up mailing some of those gifts back to yourself because you have very little room in your suitcase to bring more than you came home with and too long of a trip to justify coming home for anything later.

26. Gather all of the food from home that you could possibly it into your refrigerator back at school.

27. Brace yourself for the next semester.

28. Promise yourself that you will not procrastinate as much as you did last semester.

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All names should be "unisex names."

1. Communicating via email can be awkward.

2. Appointments usually accompany weird looks.

3. Introducing yourself to someone is never without a hitch.

4. You’ve probably thought about changing your name.

5. You’re often asked why you have the name you do.

6. You get excited when you meet someone of your gender with your name.

7. You feel awkward when you meet someone of the opposite gender with your name.

8. You’ve had someone say to you, “I knew a [your name], but they were [your opposite gender].”

9. You’ve heard a bad joke/pick-up line or two about your name before.

10. People are surprised when they see you.

11. You’re extra sensitive to other unique or unisex names.

12. You’ve fought with your parents about it.

13. All things considered, you’re happy your name makes you unique.

You know that all of these things apply to you. You'll just never tell.

I get it... I'm pale.

1. At least I can't lose you in a crowd!

2. Oh my goodness your skin is like glow-in-the-dark.

3. Can't you just get fake tan?

4. Do you tan or just burn?

5. Your kids are going to look like Casper the Friendly Ghost!

6. *holds arm against your arm* Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. *holds pale arm against another pale arm* Aw, at least you're darker than her!

8. I laid out by the pool almost every day over break!

9. I haven't used sunscreen since I was, like, five.

10. *adjusts selfie lighting to their face* Oops, where'd you go??

11. *after working out* Your face is SO red!

12. *wears white* Look! You're all one color!

13. You need to get some sun.

14. Aren't you excited for summer?

The struggle bus is real.

1. Child prodigies:

2. Hearing other musicians in the practice room next door and accepting that you will never be as talented as them:

3. That anxiety that takes over before every performance:

4. Taking a million 0 credit classes:

5. When there's a paper due the next day, but you have to attend yet another concert in order to pass a 0 credit class:

6. When your friends try to encourage you after a performance, even though you are criticizing everything in your mind:

7. Knowing that there's always that one professor during juries:

8. The oh-so-attractive band/choir uniforms:

9. Realizing that a college campus is maybe not the best atmosphere to finish your latest composition:

10. Hearing "Oh, you sing opera? I LOVE Phantom of the Opera!" for the hundredth time:

11. When people think finals week is a breeze for you.

12. When you're drowning in the stress that comes with 18+ credits (and not to mention all those 0 credit classes) and people ask you how you are:

13. When it all comes down to it, though, you know that at the end of the day, music is your passion:

Because you need it in your life.

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6. holds arm against your arm Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. holds pale arm against another pale arm Aw, at least you're darker than her!

10. adjusts selfie lighting to their face Oops, where'd you go??

11. after working out Your face is SO red!

12. wears white Look! You're all one color!