I have never necessarily hated flying. In fact, since going to a school that requires me to fly as my mode of transportation between school and home, I feel that I have traveling through airports down to a science. Whenever I am heading home I know to get to the airport an hour and a half early, giving me enough time to get through security and grab food, board my plane with my phone brightness all the way up so that it reads my ticket easily, put my headphones in, and get about two hours of reading done until I’m back in Chicago
I have quickly learned that this is much easier to apply to short flights. When I start pushing the four or five-hour mark on one airplane I get a little stir crazy. Currently, I am on my way to Hawaii, which is not a short flight from Philadelphia by any means. I sit here trying to tell myself that everything is going to be perfectly worth it once I get to Hawaii, it will be in all honesty, but I have needed to use multiple strategies this trip to keep me sane.
1. Homework
On a plane might be when I am the most motivated because what else am I going to do?
2. Eat
Am I the only person who finds eating to be an
3. Sleep
I typically can’t really sleep on planes, but it makes time fly when I do
4. People watch
It is so fun to create background stories for the people around you, trying to piece together the relationships between all of them
5. Talk
Everyone loves when they get a seat next to that surprisingly talkative and pleasant passenger, so go ahead and start a conversation when you have the chance.
6. Read
I don’t mean for homework, I strictly
7. Watch a movie
I always forget to download one, which a brutal mistake, but I'd highly recommend trying to remember to.
8. Write your Odyssey article
Sometimes, you’ll realize you have a deadline you have to meet, and in that case, you’re going to have whip out the laptop and start typing.
