Move Away From the Textbooks!

Sometimes weekends roll around rather quickly while at other times it seems to take a millennium before that beautiful Friday afternoon rolls in.  It’s important that you make time for yourself on the weekends to actually relax and enjoy life.  The weeks can become stressful and jam packed with exams, endless reading and work.  Don’t let the weekend move in and think that the only way to enjoy yourself is to go crazy at the bars.  Although that’s fun make sure you do things during the day besides work and school work.

It will be refreshing to do something other than stare at a text book or squeeze into a jam packed dark bar.

HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS TO GETTING OUT THERE SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY APPRECIATE YOUR COLLEGE YEARS:

Go to a local park and either sit on a bench or lay in the grass and read a book or magazine (something for your enjoyment that you won’t be graded on).

Take a bike ride on a route that involves beautiful scenery (if possible).

Cook or bake something if you have access to a kitchen.  Check out some recipes here at DormWise that you can try out or dig out your mom’s infamous chicken and dumplings that you haven’t had in months.  You could even get creative and whip something up on your own

Have some friends over to watch your favorite teams.

Visit a local coffee shop and hangout.  If you’re lucky maybe they’ll have live music!

Go see that movie that you have been dying to see for the past week.

Try one of those little hole in the wall restaurants and see if they really have the best sandwich in town.

Hit up the Rec center and shoot some hoops or get a couple miles in.

Write a letter to your friends or family back home or away at school.

Visit an antique store and see if you can find any affordable loot.

Whatever it is, find something that you can do for yourself.  It will keep you fresh and raring to go for the start of the week.  Incorporate a little me time into your crazy college life; before you know it those four years will have come and gone, so relax now while you can!