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The College Students' Winter Break To-Do List

A list of all the things you can do now that you actually have free time.

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The College Students' Winter Break To-Do List

Now that finals week is finally over (or in its final stages), you can do all of the tasks that you’ve been putting off until now – or do the same things that you have already been doing without feeling guilty for doing them. Winter break is here, so it is time to relax and enjoy the season, possibly by doing some of the following:

1. Actually pack for winter break, which you’ve been neglecting to do since returning back to campus from Thanksgiving break.

2. Talk to all the friends you haven’t seen in the last two weeks because you have had very little human interaction outside of studying.

3. Officially say goodbye to all of the classes that you have just finished by returning all of your textbooks.

4. Travel home, listening to holiday music for the entirety of the drive.

5. Take a nap without having to worry how much study-time you are wasting in the process.

6. Eat some home-cooked food – you know, the kind not made in bulk at your school’s dining hall.

7. Play with all your pets who probably thought you disappeared into thin air because you’ve been gone so long.

8. See all the friends from your hometown that you haven’t seen since August.

9. Watch all of your favorite holiday-themed TV specials without feeling guilty that you’re watching TV instead of studying.

10. Be able to actually enjoy those holiday-themed TV specials now that you are not watching them just to procrastinate from studying.

11. Actually go gift shopping for all of your loved-ones, now that you have free time.

12. Anxiously wait for you final grades to be released.

13. Read a book for pleasure, not for an assignment.

14. Enjoy some actual holiday decorations, not the cheap and/or make shift decorations that were on display all around your dorm or apartment building.

15. Bake holiday cookies now that you have full access to an actual kitchen and actual ingredients.

16. Pick up all of the hobbies that you have been neglecting all semester because you had absolutely no time for them.

17. Sleep in as late as you want to, seeing as you no longer have to wake up for your 8am classes.

18. Pity your bank account now that you have emptied half of it on gifts for the holiday season.

19. Make a list of New Year’s resolutions that you may very well forget about and/or neglect as soon as you return to campus.

20. Laugh at all the students still in grade school who have to return to school immediately after New Year’s Day.

21. Cry because you know that you’re next to return to school.

22. Wish for the break to last longer because you were just settling into your stress-free winter break schedule.

23. Begrudgingly gather all of the supplies and textbooks that you will need for the spring semester.

24. Try to fit all of your gifts from the holidays into your car to take them back to school.

25. Possibly end up mailing some of those gifts back to yourself because you have very little room in your suitcase to bring more than you came home with and too long of a trip to justify coming home for anything later.

26. Gather all of the food from home that you could possibly it into your refrigerator back at school.

27. Brace yourself for the next semester.

28. Promise yourself that you will not procrastinate as much as you did last semester.

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