50 Things To Do Instead of Studying For Your Midterms
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50 Things To Do Instead of Studying For Your Midterms

You can take a break. How hard can that midterm be?

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50 Things To Do Instead of Studying For Your Midterms
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For those of us on the quarter system (or maybe even you extra-unlucky semester students), midterms have come upon us. It's week four and college is TOO real right now. It's okay. I feel you. And I have some sick ways for you to ignore reality and do stuff that actually matters.

1. Check your Facebook.

2. Order everything on Amazon.

3. Reorganize your desk drawers.

4. Re-watch all of the Friends seasons.

5. Go grocery shopping.

6. Look for that earring you lost that one time.

7. Make a new Spotify playlist.

8. Look at your email's spam folder.

9. Make some hot chocolate.

10. Organize your notes but not study them.

11. Write some funny stuff on Twitter.

12. Delete old emails.

13. Schedule your next dentist appointment.

14. Sort your laundry.

15. Get dinner.

16. Refill your Brita filter.

17. Throw out expired foods.

18. Make your bed.

19. Start listening to music on Soundcloud.

20. Figure out what dates you're flying back home.

21. Write a cute letter to send to your other friend in college.

22. Check how much the midterm is worth on your professor's syllabus.

23. Fall down the dark hole of CNN articles.

24. Skype your parents.

25. Go to the gym.


26. Take a shower.

27. Declutter your desk.

28. Have an unnecessarily long conversation with your acquaintance down the hall.

29. Bug people on Facebook to give you Candy Crush lives.

30. Look up the minimum required GPA to get into grad school.

31. Figure out what the heck is up with that hollow earth conspiracy theory.

32. Search for summer internships.

33. Decide it's time to vacuum your floor.

34. Stalk a bunch of people's Facebook/Instagram/Twitter profiles.

35. Look at The Office GIFs.

36. Think about how depressed you are at the state the country is in.

37. Remember how great cereal is and serve yourself a bowl.

38. Rearrange the pictures in your room.

39. Go online shopping.

40. Look up the Kardashians' workout routine.

41. Cry at how short your résumé is.

42. Find pictures of cute dogs.

43. Clean out your refrigerator.

44. Make a list of the stuff you have to do and don't do any of it.

45. Watch cute promposal videos even though it's too late for you.

46. Shake your arm while sitting to get some Fitbit steps.

47. Take apart your mechanical pencil and admire how complex, yet simple it is.

48. Finally update your computer.

49. Look up how much power the president actually has.

50. Take a well-deserved nap.

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