<p>Hi, I'm a sophomore and every saturday I'm always at home either sleeping, watching TV, or doing homework really late at night. I feel very lazy, and it feels like time is being wasted. I could be starting a club or volunteering at this time!! but I don't have a drive. What could I be doing on Saturdays to make it more productive??? I do study SATs and stuff from time to time... but I really want to get active.</p>
<p>hang out with friends?</p>
<p>You don't have the drive b/c you're not interested? What do you enjoy doing? Do that.</p>
<p>Includes hanging out with friends, etc.</p>
<p>I know how you feel. If you don't have any friends to hang out with, think of some places you like to go to and get your parents to drop you off for the day. For example, you could hang out at a mall and browse through the stores, sit through a few movies, play rounds of miniature golf, shoplift, etc.</p>
<p>HandsAcrossTime....I thinkt he OP meant that they don't have a drive as in a ride to/from places where he/she could work/volunteer. </p>
<p>this is and was my problem. I start volunteering at places but can never hold through because I never have rides there.</p>
<p>Get a hobby/teach yourself something (Not like math but like how to play an instrument, etc.).</p>
<p>There's a site called VolunteerMatch that can link you with local volunteering opportunities. You could also work out, which could take up a couple hours.</p>
<p>Oh!!! Haha. Sorry. I didn't realize that. </p>
<p>Depending on where you live, public transportation might help.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was gonna suggest taking the bus or something. :] I did that when I couldn't drive. Or call up some friends and ask to car-pool, then you guys could get service hours together or something.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of things you could do. From my experience, because of the lack of transport, it's been through the internet, but this is what I did:</p>
<p>I became involved on the Wikipedia project and became administrator (something I used for on applications) </p>
<p>I played violent video games with a francophone gaming clan to improve my conversational skills in French </p>
<p>I took long strolls outside. Walk out into the woods at 2 am in the morning, especially if you live near the ocean. Bring pasta and coffee (in a thermoflask), and maybe an mp3 player (though the music of the night is oh-so-enchanting) and gaze at the stars. Have you ever eaten spiced and buttered spaghetti (with olive oil and lemon juice) while on the ocean rocks, while you watched the sunrise?</p>
<p>I became involved on blogs on linguistics and academic reform.</p>
<p>Maybe vegging out on Saturdays makes you more productive the rest of the week.</p>
<p>That was the whole concept behind the day of rest, after all. Like the fallow year with crop rotation. </p>
<p>There's something to be said for avoiding burn-out.</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>Or rather, use it to choose fun low-stress activities that still have relatively high-yield. It's sorta like growing alfalfa (to use Greybeard's example). It isn't a cash crop by itself, but not does it only regenerate the field, it goes on to feed the rest of your livestock at a low cost.</p>
<p>So I'm still advocating practicing a foreign language by playing video games with a foreign language clan.</p>
<p>If you're feeling relatively artistic, make large sculpture projects out of can tabs, or something.</p>
<p>staying in the house makes me lazy.. I always try to go outside and do something. anything..</p>
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Get a hobby/teach yourself something (Not like math but like how to play an instrument, etc.).
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I don't know. This weekend I read up on the Mandelbrot Set and may even submit an entry for an ongoing Nintendo DS mandelbrot set optimization contest (which I'm sure I'll lose though). Math can be interesting sometimes :-)</p>
<p>Generally, if I have nothign to do, I'll start working on some new personal project. However, if i'm really stressed out with a ton of things to do (like I am now), I tend to waste my free time doing nothing (almost literally). It's sort of a weird feeling because there are things I should be doing, but I just don't want to or am frustrated, but on the other hand, if I start doing a personal project I get distracted by thinking of the other things that are going on and need to be done.</p>
<p>However, if it really is a case of simply nothing to do, why not take on a hobby, read a good book, do a project (spend a day creating and editing a movie to put on youtube, read up on the mandelbrot set, do some programming, make a snowman, read the news, fix something, etc. , etc., etc.). If you truly want to do something and are truly bored (not stressed), there are plenty of things to do.</p>
<p>are there no busses, do you have a bike</p>
<p>are yo near any museums, zoos, galleries, animal shelters, gyms, senior homes</p>
<p>get a job......</p>
<p>^^ yes work.</p>