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5 Easy Steps To Get Back Into The Groove of Campus Living After Winter Break

1. Let yourself adjust slowly.

Sam Bertolino

Jan 24, 2019

University of Connecticut

5 Easy Steps To Get Back Into The Groove of Campus Living After Winter Break

Here we go:

1. Let yourself adjust slowly.

After a long break spent sitting on the couch and watching Netflix, getting back to school can be overwhelming. It's important to give yourself a lot of breaks at first, or time to relax. By leaving your schedule open, you can make room for much-needed naps, or even some tv-time. This way, you can wean yourself off of the couch-potato lifestyle slowly, without too much overwhelm.

2. Start a routine.

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Once back on campus, it's good to get into a routine. It will be much different than your routine back home, but equally as important. Without structure, scheduling or making time for social plans could be difficult. A routine will help to alleviate stress and make campus feel more like home.

3. Call those friends from back home.

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Since you've just come back from a month or so of spending time with your friends from back home, you're probably going to miss them a lot when it's time to go back. Make sure to call them up that first week back, and tell them about your new classes. Talking to those friends and hearing about their own moving-back-in stories might make you feel more at home.

4. Hydrate and exercise.

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If you're anything like me, exercise and "healthy living" was not a big part of your winter break. It probably consisted of lounging on the couch, eating ungodly amounts of food, or picking up some hours at your old job. But a key part of being back on campus is being healthy. It will improve your life physically and mentally.

5. Manage your time.

This is probably a given at this point, but time management is key. There's a fine balance between school work and personal time. It's important to make sure there's a healthy balance of each in your life. If one thing overshadows another in your life, take a step back to see how you can alter that. There should be room enough for work and fun.

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Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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5 Easy Steps To Get Back Into The Groove of Campus Living After Winter Break

1. Let yourself adjust slowly.

1. Let yourself adjust slowly.

2. Start a routine.

3. Call those friends from back home.

4. Hydrate and exercise.

5. Manage your time.

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Appreciation for some of life's most discredited pleasures.

1. Sun showers

2. Smiles

3. Tight hugs

4. Discovering new foods you like.

5. Laying in bed after a long day.

6. And being completely relaxed

7. "This reminded me of you"

8. Breakfast foods

9. Over-sized clothes

10. Contagious laughs

11. Car rides with that one person

12. Random (I miss you/ I love you) texts

13. The city at night

14. Surprises

15. Blanket cocoons

16. Good hair days

17. Really good coffee

18. Days where you're in a good mood naturally and for no particular reason

19. Conquering a fear

20. When they give you a lot of guac at Chipotle

21. Being so comfortable with someone that you can literally talk about anything

22. Home-cooked meals

23. Tattoo stories

24. Leaves changing color in fall

25. Butterflies in your stomach

26. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

27. When you can't stop laughing

Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

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Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)