I'm home for winter break and I hate it

pick a famous director and binge watch some classics – Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Coppola, John Ford, heck even John Woo for that matter

You can hang out here with us? :wink:

Bingwatching is a great idea. Text a college friend to see what is good.

Binge watch!

Binge watch!

Bing watching is watching Chandler Bing on Friends. Which is a great show to binge watch, btw.

OP, there’s an app called couch to 10k. I don’t know if you can do it in three weeks, but it will get you out of the house.

Your user name is operalover - why not do an opera related project like put together an opera related game or something?

When I’m that bored I play video games. Rainbox Six: Siege is a great game if you like FPS games.

ok mother, its just s typo…

In addition to the many helpful suggestions already listed:

Polish your resume, create a linkedin profile, strategize and plan for summer jobs and internships.

Learn another language. There are free software programs online like duolingo.

@PengsPhils , it’s fine that you are sympathetic to OP, but he/she didn’t exactly win us over with:

“I hate it”
“My parents are okay (just okay, nice. Ed.) …but they get on my nerves sometimes.”
“I’m tired of them. I don’t like any of my friends here that much.”
“I was just friends with them because they liked me.”
“It’s just me who’s up late”
“I don’t like sitting around the house”

So call me mean and immature, but this is a college student who is presumably now an adult. When I hear adults whining and being negative, it doesn’t endear me to them. This person could have written this much less negatively. More flies are caught with sugar than vinegar.

The OP was describing what they disliked about the situation, which is relevant to the question. It also eliminates possible suggestions, such as hanging out with high school friends, that even still were mentioned anyways. I don’t think any of these descriptions are unreasonable or unfair.

Yes, it could have been slightly more positive. However, that negativity doesn’t mean that people get to assume they are immature, moping, sulking, childish, or ungrateful. They are asking for advice and help from others, which seems like the more mature thing to do. If they were sulking and moping, you probably wouldn’t see this post, nor the willingness to get out and use their time in other ways.

If this was all negativity over an A-, then immaturity would seem to be much more likely. That’s why sympathy and reasonability concerning the situation are important. Complaining is only immature in my book if it is a small grievance with disproportional complaining or someone is not looking for help or to change the situation.

My son also gets bored when he comes home. I had him call his summer employment and is now working during winter break. Gives him money and something to do, and gives me a break from hearing him complain that he is bored.

It is what it is. Be respectful of your parents, and get through of it. A few short weeks in the years of your lifetime are little enough to give.

Do you like podcasts? or recorded books? Down load some of those. Sometimes when I am lonely I listen to them because they are often group discussions -so you feel like you are part of the group sort of. Podcasts are free! and you can find them about anything. You can listen to them while you do some kind of project around the house. I am sure you folks can find something for you to clean or paint.
Let me know if you need some podcast suggestions.
My D who is home from college is binge watching some TV shows and doing errands for me. She wraps presents and cooks. She isn’t hanging out with her old friends either. She is texting her new ones.

Night Vale! That’s a great podcast.

@operalover18 never came back. Maybe he/she found something to do!

This might be a good time to form an adult relationship with your parents…set the tone. Chat with them, or go out to dinner, or something else that you know they’d enjoy. It’s nice to be friends with your parents.

Part of being an adult is learning how to entertain yourself when you’re bored. You won’t be in college forever; your friends won’t always be right down the hall and you won’t always be able to stay awake super late watching movies (because you’ll have to go to work). How are you going to entertain yourself once you are older? You can start learning some of those skills now.

My daughter got a seasonal job at Target so as not to be bored.