The Holidays are here, Christmas and the Winter Solstice have passed for the year, and you have nothing to do as the new year approaches. Without mental stimulation its' easy to let your mind wander to recent things like your grades from the most recent disaster semester. You don't need that toxicity in your life so the best thing to do is just pretend it doesn't exist. It's important for you to enjoy your break; so here are 5 tips on how to avoid thinking about your grades in order to enjoy your break.

1. Spend time with your loved ones.

Distracting yourself by spending time with your friends and family is an obvious way to distract yourself. Perhaps playing board games or watching a movie will keep you mentally occupied. Make sure these people trustworthy, any slip up of them doing their own thing could lead to letting you mind wander. Or even worse, they could ask you directly how your grades were this semester!! In order to avoid these mishaps it can be helpful to ask your close family and friends to sign a contract specifying their responsibilities toward you over the break. This of course may put a strain on the relationships with the special people in your life so send out contracts with caution.

2. Sleep the whole time.

You can't even think when you're asleep, only dream. A good way to avoid pondering your less than average grades is to just sleep the entire time. Your break will end in no time and when you wake up you just go back to school to start a new semester. This whole break will be almost like a dream. Seeing as I'm not actually an expert on sleep, I'm not sure how to be asleep for so long. I assume something like taking twenty sleeping pills or maybe one huge sleeping pill (like the size of an orange), another option may by to knock your self out, hit yourself upside the head with a large object like a mace or a rock. A concussion is better than the incurable agonizing pain that comes from the depression caused by your grades.

3. Hypnotize yourself.

The beginning process of this will be painful because you'll have to focus on your grades and how awful they are, but the end result could potentially ruin your life by altering your brain will be so cool. Spend your life savings on supplies and fix the fear of your grades by just conditioning yourself to not even know of the existence of your grades at all.

4. Blow up your school.

The grades don't count if the school is gone.

5. Move into the woods.

Honestly, I'm not sure why I continually make this an option in most of my advice articles. But you know it technically is a great solution to most of life's social anxieties. Move into the woods and avoid all people, you will have no problems excpet maybe bears or something. Happy New Year.