How to waste time after finals

I made the mistake of thinking that I need a ton of time after exams to say goodbye, pack, and mourn the end of the year. I was wrong. Very wrong. If you’re like me, or you booked your flights before you knew your exam schedule, know I share your pain. Although Brown is a fantastic place to be, and few want to leave for the summer, it’s straight-up depressing when exams roll around. All your friends are in the SciLi and nothing is happening at night, leaving you to wander aimlessly from the Vdub to the Blue Room to the Ratty trying to spend meal credits. Since you’re probably bored, and probably alone, you need something to do that only mildly annoys others and simultaneously makes your freedom from studying obvious.

• Watch Netflix in obvious places in the libraries. People go to the SciLi for the shared misery, and there would be nothing worse than knowing someone is in there just watching Netflix. Pick a place on one of the first four floors, preferably at a shared table, and start your marathon.
• Bring your whole dorm outside and set up shop on the Main Green. The suddenly beautiful weather makes it hard to stay inside, but you’re also going to want the comforts of your dorm room while lounging. Drag the mini fridge out for constant snacking, most of your bedding to lie down, at least a few book options, and pictures to remember your poor friends in libraries.
• Laugh at your stressed friends as they pass you laying on the Main Green on their way from the Rock to the SciLi.
• Start the reading for next year. Although there are probably over eight classes in your shopping cart, make next semester easier and get ahead of first week reading. You’ll hate it right now, but love yourself come September when you can just barely remember the books.
• Offer to read the textbooks to your friends while they sleep to maximize learning time. Time is increasingly valuable to closer the final, and since you have nothing better to do, offer to read the textbook to a friend in their final acts of desperation. Maybe it will do nothing, or maybe it will make them dream of exothermic reactions.
• Create a fake Facebook party and invite a bunch of random people from your hometown to make your friends feel like they’re really missing out.

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