Winter break plans

• FUCKING RELAX (I’m so excited)

  • Was it the worst semester?

    • In some ways yes, and in some ways no.

    • For the argument of no:

      • I didn’t have statics

      • Or computer science

      • I didn’t have as many assignments (like 30 per week last semester), and as many time-consuming assignments that these classes gave me (interegr170 was also time-consuming and had a lot of assignments so that too)

    • But it was also just as bad, with the aspect of not having time. That felt very similar. I was very busy.

    • For the argument of yes:

      • Dostoevsky was MORE time consuming than a lot of these (last semester I had Chekhov which was pretty light in comparison —> huge difference actually, in comparison)

      • In terms of stress, how serious everything felt, and how depressed I felt:

        • YES

        • YES

        • YES

      • Also I hated linear algebra

      • In physics (I like physics) but I felt like professors weren’t actually teaching me anything, just giving me 50 formulas (like actually I hate that)

• Sleep (I’m so excited)

• Get away from everything and everyone (I’m so excited)

• Try to forget my problems

• Nutcracker

• Celebrate Christmas the 25th!! (I don’t usually do this since this is not actually my Christmas)

• Do cute lil Christmas-y things (I am excited for this too)

  • And listen to a shit ton of Christmas music while doing these btw

  • Open presents and gift people

  • Hot chocolate

  • Gingerbread houses

  • Christmas cookies (baking + decorating)

  • Candied strawberries (I am SO excited to make these)

  • Winter walks?

  • Ice skating

  • Christmas movies (Elf and Home Alone are annual must-watches)

  • Scrapbooking (all of these are +& additionally cute little w. boyfriend activities btw)

• Maybe make cute little shuffles (like the app that’s connected to Pinterest)?

• READ

  • For Dostoevsky:

    • Кроткая

    • Идиот

    • Бесы

  • For Tolstoy:

    • Анна Каренина

    • Война и мир

  • For Turgenev

    • Something about Christmas I don’t know what it’s called

  • Organic chemistry big ahh textbooks (guys I’m a nerd)

  • Organic chem 2

• If I am going to the ball, I’ll need to find a dress

• Plan random stuff pertaining to my life

  • Scrapbooking for example

• Get ready for camp (I don’t even know if I’m going but)

  • There’s a lot of stuff I can do because there’s a lot of stuff I want to do and improve and make better and better! Eek

• Play piano (I MISS IT)

• Stretch (finally! In peace!)

• Maybe do some ballet? But I won’t have my pointe shoes unless I bring them back on the bus…

  • lol these last ones have kind-of sounded like my 2025 new year resolutions, which I was pretty productive on, but I guess they’re ongoing

• WRITE MY BLOG

• Also I can finally go to cafés and like, not, just do school but work on my own personal life projects (yay! It can be more of a happy experience!)

  • Camp stuff

  • Blog

• Plan pre-med stuff

  • Look at jobs? Internships? Plan for future apartment? (The one I already signed a lease on?)

  • Requirements?

• Hang out with some friends

  • Some university that live nearby

  • Hometown friends

• Something I really don’t want to do, but need to do, is clean out my photos. I HATE doing this. I hate looking at my old photos or photos in general

• Go ice fishing

• Winter stuff:

  • Snow fort

  • Snowman

  • Snowball fight?

  • Skiing

  • Sledding

• Oh yeah, New Years

• Update my vsco?

• Download Instagram, again, possibly?

  • It feels like a challenge

• Zone out and literally no one can judge me

• Just sit and think all day

• Or lay in bed

• Do nothing

• Online shop or look at random stuff online

• Contemplate life choices, and how things got to where they did

• Existential/identity crisis

• Maybe try out some new iPad programs, like GoodNotes? To see if I want to change my program for school

• What I will NOT do (hopefully):

  • Be depressed

  • Cry

  • Have to question my entire future and be screwed (If I don’t get in, I’m screwed because for no other reason than the horrible reason of anywhere else might be WAY too expensive, + a million other reasons).

  • Drop out of college.