Athletics
As you’re starting off your second semester of college, we’re here to give you simple tips to avoid making it a boring, routine one.
Just in time for the second semester, we’re swooping in to save you from feeling like it’s one endless loop, day in and day out. We’ve gathered a few tips for you to keep an active life during your time at university and avoid the dull and redundant routine. Yes, studying is important, but keeping a balanced lifestyle helps maintain your mental health during the academic year. Here’s what you can do this semester to beat the boredom:
- Take up new hobbies: Whether it’s diving into a sport, exploring video games, or acquiring a new skill, it’s important to try something you might be passionate about. This will help take your mind off studying in a healthy way and could lead to a change in your routine.
- Manage your time: We know that a new semester comes with a lot of class workloads that might leave students feeling overwhelmed. However, to avoid falling into a rut of a routine, it’s best to organize your thoughts, studies, and extra activities to keep your schedule neat and active, with enough room for breaks.
- Keep an active social life: Just like you make time to focus on your studies, you also need to have some fun with your friends and fellow students to unwind and to avoid only having “study mode” turned on.
- A healthy mind is a healthy body: As you’re taking care of your mental health by avoiding falling into the routine, you’re also looking to keep a strong and healthy body. Exercising allows you to relieve stress and any pent-up negative feelings that might have come about because of your campus routine.
- Volunteer work: Volunteering your time is both fulfilling and beneficial. Using some of your free time to help different causes is rewarding on its own, but it also helps you meet interesting new people.
We hope these few tips will help you as you take on your new semester! We wish you the best of luck and we know you’re going to ace it!