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Upsides To Staying In Town Over Break

9 things to do while stuck in town.

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Upsides To Staying In Town Over Break
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While everyone is packing up to go home to their families, or just simply away for the break. You do not have to worry about if all your clothes will fit in your suitcase. You do not have to worry about who will take you to the airport. Slowly campus starts to empty out, and eventually looks like a ghost town or like Sundays when everyone is in bed nursing a hangover. Except it's Tuesday and you do not have someone to moan to about your hangover or to join you in stuffing your faces with greasy pizza. No, you finished that 12-pack alone while watching "House of Cards" on Netflix all day. In your underwear.

Watching Netflix all day while drinking beer in your underwear is what you have been dreaming about all semester. So, why does it seem just sad now?

Because you are thinking of everything else you everyone else is doing. I say forget about them and their European holidays. This is America! Forget about how nice it would be to be home with your family. All they are probably be doing is drinking too much wine to make dinner with grandma bearable and dodging anyone they went to high school with in the grocery store.

1. Organize your life.

Let's be honest, you really need to get your life together before next semester starts. It's time to do some laundry, kiddo.

2. Finally doing and seeing everything you've always wanted to do in your college town.

Remember how you always planned on hiking that mountain over the weekend, but always ended up at the bars instead? This is your chance! Go hike! Go bike! Go explore!

3. Pick up a new hobby.

I finally tried rock climbing while in stuck in town, what are you gonna finally try?

4. Work.

Save some money so you're not living on ramen all next semester, just for half of it. Or so you too can go on that European adventure next break!

5. Go on a road trip.

Try and see what the neighboring towns have to offer.

6. Read a book.

Sometimes it's hard to find the time or the desire to read for pleasure after reading 20 chapters on the fall of the Soviet Union. But now you do not have any notes to take or exams to worry about. You can finally read the book that's been collecting dust on your nightstand for the past three months.

7. Netflix and chill.

No, I don't mean that ironically, but hey if you wanna, go for it! And, no there is nothing wrong with watching Netflix all day in your underwear. There are so many shows you have stockpiled in your queue, it's time you actually watched them.

8. Relax.

It has been a long semester, sometimes it is nice to just do nothing. Plus, you should really catch up on those 214 hours of sleep you lost over the semester.

9. Find yourself.

Sometimes you just need to be alone to find out what you like or don't like. So, be a cliché and go out and eat, pray, love it up!

This is your chance to finally see what living in your college town is like without the college part! Maybe at the end of the day staying in town won't be so bad. You never know what could happen.

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