There’s nothing wrong with staying in on a Friday night.

In fact, it’s infinitely more practical than going out. You can get ahead on so many things — wait, what am I saying, it’s Friday! You can procrastinate in so many ways! That said, here are some things — productive or (mostly) otherwise — to do on a Friday night in the dorm.

1. Start your homework

You knew this was coming up first, didn’t you? Yeah, I thought I’d get the jokes out of the way early. This one’s a surefire, albeit unrealistic, way to kick off the weekend in a productive manner. And if you somehow manage to attain this goal — even if all you accomplish is the creation of a very rough intro sentence for your writing sem essay — then kudos to you.

2. Fail at solving a Rubik's cube

If you’re anything like me, you perceive this multi-colored 3-D square (that is the official definition, you know) to be an absolute enigma. It doesn’t matter how many YouTube tutorials you watch or how many friends make it look like the most natural activity since breathing, you just cannot get that darned white cross. But by no means does that stop you from twisting the cube as fast as you can, in the hopes of mastering the appearance of being a master.

3. Write a poem

It helps if there’s a raging storm going on outside, with raindrops pelting your windows and wind soaring through the trees. Unless the storm is raging inside your mind, and the raindrops are your thoughts struggling to escape, and the wind is the achingpressure you feel to release them. This is the beginning of a masterpiece, I can feel it.

4. YouTube

Literally, YouTube. This encompasses an infinite number of possibilities. You can cry over movie clips from Titanic; you can catch illegally uploaded, bad quality reruns of America’s Next Top Model; you can amuse yourself with quirky science facts or slow motion activities; you can waste away watching Vine compilations or “Where Are They Now?” videos put together by High School Musical fangirls. And you can do it all with a cat by your side, because cats and YouTube are inseparable.

5. Do excessive amounts of Sudoku puzzles

Again, if you’re anything like me, Sudoku rivals the Rubik’s cube for the Enigma of the Century award. But you’re probably not like me. At all. So you can go right ahead and plug those numbers into the little squares and somehow know when you’ve succeeded in doing something. I envy you, honestly.

6. Play Candy Crush for an unspecified duration

Just keep going. It’s called a saga for a reason.

7. Karaoke

This is one of the best stress-relieving time-consumers there is. Plus, since it’s Friday night, no one’s around the residence hall to judge you for it. So just let it go. Being tone-deaf never bothered you anyway. (Are Frozen references still a thing? Wow. I hope not.)

8. Take selfies

Just because you stayed in doesn’t mean you don’t look amazing. Well, sometimes it does. But at any rate, Snapchat and Instagram guarantee that no matter how tired, hungry, or annoyed you look or feel, model status is merely a filter away.

9. Listen to the sounds of nightlife

You can try to distance yourself from the good-natured shouts and shrieks of laughter penetrating your dorm, but after a while it’s better to just acknowledge them. Sometimes it’s even funny, like when a group of girls keeps yelling the name of the guy on the floor above yours and you know for a fact that he went to some elite pregame, but the girls just won’t give up hope that he’ll make an appearance at the window. Trust me, it’s hilarious. Especially when you think you might want to sleep soon.

10. Give on on everything and go to a rave

Sleep? What even is that, am I right? Go ahead and check your emails, you’re sure to find some sort of rager going on — plus, since it showed up in your school email, there’ll probably be ice cream or riddles or something. Should be fun. And since you’re technically still in the dorm when you make this decision, it totally counts as a Friday-night-in activity. So there. You just beat the system. Boom.