Summer is for going back home and reconnecting with your hometown. It's for seeing your high school friends, family, and reminding yourself of your roots. Summer is when you discover how much you've changed in the past year when you were at college, but also discover the parts about yourself that didn't change.
Most college students work during the summer because life is expensive and money is important. However, college students shouldn't be working everyday of their summer. They have their whole life to work and worry about things. The summer should be for a time of distressing, having fun, and taking time to better one self. So please don't overwork yourself and take at least one day a week to do something fun. Below is a list of simple but exciting things to do during the summer.
1. Go camping
2. Go to the beach
3. Make a bonfire
4. Make s'mores
5. Have a backyard BBQ
6. Have a sleepover with all of your high school friends
7. Don't forget to spend time with your parents, they miss you when you are at college
8. Go to the lake
9. Go on a boat
10. Go tubbing or try jet-skiing
11. Go on a hike
12. Make a recipe from online or just an old family recipe
13. Go out for ice cream
14. Pull an all-nighter, at least once
15. Go on a road-trip
16. Throw a pool party or go to one
17. FaceTime your college friends and tell them you miss them
18. Make dinner for your family
19. Go for a late night drive
20. Blare music in your car with the windows down
21. Have a lazy night, binge watch all those movies
22. Watch a new Netflix series
23. Laugh so hard you cry
24. Be spontaneous, do something random with friends in your hometown
25. Go back to the hang out spot of your high school, the memories will make you smile
26. Go to a concert
27. Try to travel outside of the country if you can
28. Play a board game
29. Try a new restaurant
30. Go to your states "downtown"
31. Go for a late night swim
32. Go on a shopping spree-sometimes we all need one
33. Bake a cake and celebrate something random with friends
34. Go to a sporting event
35. Wake up for the sunrise
36. Go for a walk during the sunset
37. Tell your favorite high school teacher thank you
38. Go for a run around town
39. Go to trivia with friends
40. Try karaoke
41. Grow a plant
42. Go to a museum
43. Make a tie dye shirt
44. Go kayaking
45. Do some kind of community service
46. Celebrate the Fourth of July- a parade, wave the American flag, you name it
47. Have a photoshoot
48. Buy a touristy thing from your home state if you go to college far away, you will smile when you are homesick
49. Go for a bike ride
50. Have a water balloon fight
51. Play twister with paint
52. Dress up with friends and go somewhere fancy
53. Go out to brunch
54. Go to your friends houses, say hi to their parents, they missed you and you missed them
55. Appreciate the art of summer and do whatever you want to do, it's your summer, your time to not worry
College can be stressful and the summer is our only time to not be as stressed out as we are during the school year. Don't forget to celebrate summer and all it has to offer.
