As we continue to settle into the new school year, it can be difficult to leave behind our carefree summer attitude in place of constant stress and agony as we struggle to balance our busy class schedule, homework, job, and a social life. As we dive deeper into fall, we get closer to our first exam(s) of the semester. If we're lucky, our exams will be spread out across a couple weeks; if we're unlucky, we'll have a paper due on Monday, two exams on Tuesday, and a third exam on Wednesday.
As we get re-situated with our busy life, it can be difficult to focus on homework and study for exams, especially when there is a whole world of fun outside waiting for us. Every time I try and do my homework or attempt to study for an exam, I think about all of the things I would rather be doing than studying, like:
1. Travel the world
2. Play with my dog
3. Play with my cats
4. Go to the zoo
5. Go shopping
6. Watch "One Tree Hill"
7. Go to a baseball game
8. Play with my dog
9. Watch a movie
10. Drink Starbucks
11. Eat McDonald's
12. Take a walk around the neighborhood
13. Go to the gym
14. Order a pizza
15. Do squats
16. Play with my cats
17. Volunteer at the Humane Society and play with dogs
18. Color in a coloring book
19. Clean my room
20. Redecorate my room
21. Gossip with my friends are boys and life and boys
22. Watch "Gossip Girl"
23. Straighten my hair
24. Go to a Michigan State football game
25. Write an Odyssey article
26. Go to a concert
27. Go to the park
28. Make my bed
29. Read a book for fun
30. Eat a donut
31. Play with my dog
32. Learn how to bake
33. Start writing my biography
34. Go to the beach
35. Try and persuade myself to study
36. Take a shower
37. Learn how to bake
38. Play with my cats
39. Climb Mount Everest
40. Proctor an exam
41. Learn the square root of pi
42. Eat a whole pie
43. Watch every season of "Grey's Anatomy" (which means I'll never study because the show never ends)
44. Eat a home-cooked meal
45. Read other Odyssey articles
45. Rewatch the 2016 World Series when the Chicago Cubs won for the first time in 108 years
46. Sell all of my possessions and live of the land
47. Lay outside and get a tan
48. Listen to music
49. Go sledding
50. Smile, be carefree, be stress-free, and just enjoy life