The fact that summer break is only a few months makes it feel like a race. You’ve spent June and July just lounging on the couch eating literally anything that wanders into your vicinity, and then by August you feel like you’ve wasted your entire break doing nothing. It’s awfully weird that you can’t comfortably do nothing even on your break, but whether you’re the type of person to lie around on vacation or the type of person to visit every single attraction there is, you have to admit there’s a pressure to fully enjoy your summer break. Some things you only get to do during the summer, so this is the best time to get up and knock out a few things on your bucket list that you’ve been meaning to do.

1. Take a beach day

If you live close enough to the shore, take your friends and spend a day there. It’s the short version of going on a vacation, and though after getting ridiculously sandy you won’t be in a rush to go back, it’s still a staple thing to do over summer break. There’s nothing like coming home with gross, dry, salty hair and a camera roll full of candids.

2. Go hiking

I can’t believe I’m personally recommending exercise, but if you can catch a cool day and go earlier in the morning, it’s worth it to go on a hike. Enjoy being covered in sweat and bitten by a million mosquitoes.

3. Take an early morning walk

I can’t believe I’m advocating for waking up early either, but if you happen to pull an all-nighter at some point this summer, wander out to walk around your neighborhood as it’s just waking up. This is the only time I don’t hate my town: when the sun’s just coming up and it’s quiet and people-less.

4. Take an evening walk too

The atmosphere on a summer evening is so much different than it is in the morning, so take the chance to explore both. Go out when it’s already dark and the heat has fizzled out a little and just listen to the occasional car whizzing through the hazy air.

5. Marathon Netflix

Take this chance to catch up on the TV shows that you couldn’t watch during the busy year. Know that this will inevitably result in several all-nighters and a lot of tears because Netflix can’t keep its dirty hands off of Poussey Washington.

6. Sleep in

School and work crush all chances of this during the year, but on the off chance that you’re working an evening shift one day, take the time to sleep past 12. Nothing feels better than waking up without an alarm clock at a terrible, unproductive hour.

7. Be unproductive

Definitely take the time for a beach day and an early morning hike, but remember that this is your time to relax. Watch mindless reality TV and lie around scrolling through your feed and tell your friends you’re too busy being lazy to go out. Do what you can’t do during the year: nothing.