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101 Ways to be Productive When Classes Are Not In Session
tiny-personal-university-thing:
- Get a job
- Learn guitar
- Learn piano
- Study a new language
- Purchase new study materials for the next semester (i.e new notebooks, a new pencil bag, a new backpack, new pencils, pens, or highlighters – 10/10 would recommend Crayola SuperTips they are extremely cheap!)
- Clean your room
- Clean your apartment/home
- Make your bed
- Make a list of your goals
- Exercise
- Write
- Find a new podcast (for my pre-law friends, I recommend Think Like A Lawyer)
- Read a new book
or read all of the books you have bought but not been able to read yet - Clean out your closet - donate clothes you do not wear anymore to Goodwill
- Clean out your car/wash your car (actually necessary to ensure that dirt does not accumulate in its parts - TRUST ME)
- Be a tourist in your own city - find a new coffee shop you might like to study at when classes resume
- Try new recipes - learn to cook by watching Youtube videos
- Start a new skin care routine (I recommend Noxema {app $4} for your face wash, follow it up with Witch Hazel {app $6} and finish with Tea Tree Oil {app $8}!)
- Start a new blog (or check out my new blog @tiny-personal-aesthetics-thing
I know I’m shameless) - Volunteer at local animal shelters, retirement homes, hospitals, libraries, Habitat for Humanity, etc.
- Redecorate your room - try moving your bed or furniture around and see how it changes the fung shui (if you are into that)
- Learn about photography
- Work on your mental and physical health
- Take your dog for a walk - I’m sure they would appreciate it
- Ride a horse
- Create a budget for yourself
- Start a bujo
- Draw
- Paint
- Watch a documentary
- Create goals for next semester
- Reflect on this past semester
- Learn self-defense
- Visit a museum or a park
- Sell items you don’t want anymore on apps such as Letgo or via the Facebook Market
- Start gardening
- Call friends/family you haven’t heard from in awhile
- Write friends/family you haven’t heard from in awhile
- Go for a hike
- Improve your vocabulary using resources such as: vocabulary.com, or enhancemyvocabulary.com
- Fix your sleep schedule (!!!)
- Learn about your family history
- Utilize Khan Academy videos to brush up on math, science, or humanities
- Clean out your email inbox
- Get a test prep book for the LSAT/MCAT/GRE
- Talk to an adultier adult in the field you wish to enter regarding your career options
- Work on your resume
- Increase your typing speed using websites such as: typing.com, typeracer.com, or rapidtyping.com
- Write thank you notes to professors/instructors/advisors that you found particularly helpful - or to friends/family/mentors that also helped you out
- Get your planner organized for the new semester (or buy a planner if you haven’t already)
- Find and price the textbooks and access codes you will need for the coming semester
- Jazz up/update your social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to reflect more on your professionalism (if you have those)
- Update your style - new semester, new clothes, new you
- Go swimming - nice low impact exercise
- Find a professional to shadow
- Find an internship
- Find scholarship opportunities (create a new email account to specifically use for scholarships!)
- Get a head start on the classes you will be taking by self-studying (a plethora of free information exists on the internet)
- Be a mentor - tutor high schoolers/junior high students for SAT/ACT prep, or generally for whatever subjects they need help in
- Do manual labor - fix something, build something, mow the yard, clean the gutters
- Do yoga
- Work on breathing exercises
- Treat yourself
- Learn to say no
- Go on graduate school tours
- Travel (can be near or far, cheap or expensive - know your budget)
- Do your own research project
- Take an online sample course via edX,or Coursera
- Start your graduate school application
- Pet sit for someone
- House sit for someone
- Start your own Youtube channel
- Work on your handwriting
- Try sculpting
- Attend networking events
- Attend leadership events
- Start a fundraiser for a cause
- Learn to code
- Study abroad - or solidify a study abroad trip
- Create a four year plan for your degree
- Visit family
- Visit a friend
- Get letters of recommendation
- Get crafty
- Take a practice test for the LSAT/ MCAT/ GRE
- Take all of your loose change to a CoinStar and exchange them for cash
- Learn about where your food comes from
- Drink more water
- Find an audio book to listen to when you are in the car or on the bus
- Catch up on your laundry
- Forge new good habits such as utilizing a planner or making your bed every day
- Start a compost pile
- Grow your own herbs
- Start meal prepping/meal planning
- Play basketball
- Play tennis
- Get a haircut
- Organize your desk
- Organize your laptop
- Learn about astronomy
- Rest, relax, and recuperate for the semester to come
- Get a job
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During my first month with my therapist, I was given this worksheet to read and work on. She noticed that while I was talking with her, that my thoughts followed a lot of these. I wasn’t aware that my anxiety had brought me down paths of low self-worth and stinky thinking.
After a couple of weeks of talking with her, she gave me this worksheet to work on.
While, at first, I thought these weren’t going to work out, I was very surprised to see just how easy they were to use . My homework at that time was to identify which sort of thinking I used on the regular and which ones would best challenge them for me.
So, what do you think? Do any of the maladaptive thinking patterns sound like you? which ways would you like to untwist your thinking?(via makeamesscec)
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“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” -
Stop thinking about everything so much, you’re breaking your own heart.
(via withshatteredhappiness)
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(via naughtylittle--girl)
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