<p>This one month winter break thing is really starting to have its toll on me. I guess this is what happens when you don't plan ahead, but really there's not much you can set up temporarily.</p>
<p>I could start reading for next semester, but I have no motivation to do so, because I realize not doing well enough last semester was because I slacked off in the first half of the semester, not because my foundations were weak. </p>
<p>I mean I have been watching tv, reading, sleeping, eating, shopping, hanging out with friends, vacationing, DOING NOTHING, etc, but there are still TWO WEEKS LEFT. I just get this feeling I'm wasting my life away or something...</p>
<p>I just beat the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks a couple days ago, and I watched all of House season 5 (some days I found myself watching 7 or 8 episodes). </p>
<p>I plan on spending my remaining two weeks playing a significant portion of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and playing (and hopefully completing) Majora’s Mask.</p>
<p>^dude, i went to Boreal, have watched first two seasons of desperate housewives (now completely done lol), woke up at noon everyday too… wow haha</p>
<p>i watched seasons 1-4 of desperate housewives. got my wisdom teeth taken out a couple days ago, and have since been re-watching all episodes of arrested development for the umpteenth time.</p>
<p>this weekend i’m heading to palm springs to chill with family. then i might be going to vegas before heading back up to berkeley.</p>
<p>Eating, cooking, drinking (too much), reading, watching all those movies I downloaded last semester but was too busy to watch, seeing friends (whom are all back in school now), playing civilization 2, running, getting depressed about how much time I am wasting, looking for a part-time job after my fellowship runs its course in February, looking for a job for once I graduate, filling out the TFA application, filling out countless fellowship and post-graduation program applications, getting worried, drinking more, waking up feeling terrible, stop drinking, run a bit more, go back to filling out job applications, realizing how pointless it all is, get caught up in a day or two of existential despair, playing civilization 2 again, drinking a bit more, reading a bit more, start waking up at 11am, remembering I have a couple deadlines 12 hours before their due date, stimulating myself and filling out more applications, not making it to New Years, obsessively following three to four internet communities I’m a part of, cooking increasingly grandiose dinners with my parents ingredients, remembering I have 5 days left before I have to return to that ****ty Oakland hellhole to work full-time in SF before school starts, getting preemptively homesick for the pleasant weather, start focusing on graduating, start hating Berkeley and the Bay Area, change the locations in my post-graduate job search to “non-US,” New York City, Washington DC, and London.</p>
<p>Doing nothing, partying, watching lots of tv, listening to sports radio. But I’ve also really stepped up the running to get in better shape before I have to go back. Feels good.</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t know if it’s just me - but I hate this feeling of being unproductive and wasting time… I know that’s the point of a break, but I’d rather be busy with classes and school work than waste the whole day… haha. Any one doing something constructive?</p>
<p>I spent a good portion of my break completing and replaying Dragon Age: Origins. You should try it. You still have about a week and a half left, and that’s enough time to complete it twice.</p>
<p>^ not worth replaying unless u bought the DLCs + want everything</p>
<p>i feel ya, i need something to do. just vegetating makes me nervous that all the berkeley students out there are doing something great and significant that i’m missing out on. gotta keep up with the joneses</p>
<p>Catching up with friends, getting massages, eating out all the time, and shopping way too much. I miss Berkeley too :(</p>
<p>Almost all of my friends are on the quarter systems so before I knew it they already went back to school. I also started studying for math and applying for jobs.</p>
<p>yea basically everyone i know has gone. so i’ve started organizing all my stuff and teaching myself how to knit
you don’t necessarily need to study, i dont even own any of my books yet for next semester. but if you really feel guilty you can watch old webcasts or something to get a heads up. or get other stuff out of the way. like i’ve been organizing my video games since i always end up doin that stuff during the year, but if i get it over with now then i have one less thing to “do”.</p>
<p>one thing I’ve learned is that when I try to learn material beforehand, I end up ditching class when school starts because I know the material, and end up worse for the wear come midterms. Thus I think it’s more important to think about long term strategy and generally enjoy your break.
After finding out how much I messed up on my mage skills, I had to start from scratch</p>
<p>Ahh Dragon Age…I must have spent like 40 hours so far playing it this break. That respec mod is incredibly useful because you can respec your allies too, so Morrigan doesn’t need to have those useless shapeshifting skills now.</p>
<p>the respec mod is a bit cheap as you can just retweak until you’re uber godly, it’s pretty easy to figure out what’s good and bad.</p>
<p>what’s the point of playing it a second time? besides the beginning intros depending on your character class, you get allies from every class. plus, it’s not like the game actually “ends”, if ya know what I mean. but if you are going for all those erotic scenes… dwarf on dwarf anyone ;P?</p>
