What should I do for a three week break for Christmas?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around suggestions for activities during a three-week Christmas break, with a focus on personal interests, hobbies, and potential volunteer work. Participants share various ideas ranging from academic pursuits to leisure activities.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest engaging in academic activities, such as calculating more digits of π or exploring mathematical physics, particularly special relativity.
  • Others propose creative activities, like taking photographs of houses with the number 13 or memorizing poems, including suggestions for specific works like Poe's "The Raven" or Dante's "Divine Comedy."
  • Volunteering is mentioned as a rewarding option that could enhance college applications.
  • Several participants recommend leisure activities, such as watching movies, playing video games, or spending time with friends and family.
  • Some suggest considering part-time jobs or productive self-learning, such as programming or using LaTeX.
  • There are discussions about reading literature, with differing opinions on the value of translated works versus original texts.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present a variety of suggestions without a clear consensus on the best activities. Different viewpoints exist regarding the value of academic versus leisure pursuits, as well as the merits of volunteering and part-time work.

Contextual Notes

Some suggestions depend on personal interests and circumstances, such as age restrictions for certain jobs or the availability of resources for specific activities.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals seeking ideas for productive or enjoyable activities during a holiday break, particularly those interested in balancing leisure with academic or volunteer pursuits.

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what should i do for a three week break for Christmas?
 
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You're 13, right? We should let members know that first. :)
 
Delta31415 said:
what should i do for a three week break for Christmas?
Calculate more digits of π. Five is nothing for a real geek.
 
practice some acts...
or read a normal book...
 
You're 13. Grab a camera and go outside taking pictures of houses with the number 13 on them. Every day take exactly 13 pictures, never of the same house twice. Do that for 13 days, and use the rest to put the pictures together in a portfolio, presentation, mosaic, slideshow, or some other creative way.
See if you can get 13 friends to do the same thing.
 
13? Clean your room. LOL
 
Delta31415 said:
what should i do for a three week break for Christmas?
Apart from Doug Huffman's excellent suggestion (to which I'd add: resolve not to scream at, or otherwise disrespect, your long suffering elders, and try to be less of a selfish dick/twat at that time of year), I'd suggest: try to master something new.

Since you're posting at a physics forum, I presume you're interested in physics? How about maths? Are you interested enough in both those things to try some basic mathematical physics for yourself? E.g., special relativity?
 
am 15(just turned 15 few days ago) and i i like relativity a lot read a few books on it
 
Delta31415 said:
am 15(just turned 15 few days ago) and i i like relativity a lot read a few books on it
Happy birthday delta! Hope it was nice.
 
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Delta31415 said:
am 15(just turned 15 few days ago)
OK, better than 13. :D

[...] i like relativity a lot read a few books on it
Have you encountered calculus yet? (You'll need it to start doing relativity properly...)
 
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thank you Evo,and i have encountered a little bit of calculus mostly in books that i read in my free time not in school yet but will in a few years
 
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Delta31415 said:
what should i do for a three week break for Christmas?

Would you consider doing some kind of volunteer work?? It can be very rewarding. It also looks good on a college app. .)
 
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Certainly reading and movies are possibilities, or just hang out with friends and family. One could do volunteer work at a food kitchen.

Depending on where one lives, one could go to the beach. Most areas are probably cold, especially in the west and north, otherwise, I'd recommend hiking or climbing in the mountains.

If one has the income, one could go to the Caribbean or Central or S. America, or Africa, or Australia or NZ. I think one of my nieces is in Africa at the moment scouting out some business opportunities.
 
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Astronuc said:
If one has the income, one could go to the Caribbean or Central or S. America, or Africa, or Australia or NZ. I think one of my nieces is in Africa at the moment scouting out some business opportunities.
Well, he's 15, maybe sailing to Bora Bora can wait a few years.
 
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last year i got snowed in so winter break went to four weeks i might get a part time job,or go to Canada to visit family
 
  • #17
You could become an honorary Atheist and join my campaign to abolish Christmas before you get too deeply indoctrinated.
 
  • #18
i am not a christian in the first place
 
  • #19
Memorize an interesting poem.
 
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what kind of poem,a epic like Dante's divine comedy?
 
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You could get a Russian-English dictionary and read the original "War and Peace"...
 
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Delta31415 said:
what kind of poem,a epic like Dante's divine comedy?
Poe's The Raven. Easy to memorize, expands vocabulary, scores points with the girls.
Warning: may turn an impressionable person into an emo.
 
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I'd look for a part-time job as a waiter in a restaurant, local mail, gift or parcel deliveryman during Winter vacation (I actually did when I was a student), supermarkets, 7-11, Lawson, K-Circle aka all convenience store also hire a lot of people...
 
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either get a part-time job, or do something productive. Like teaching yourself programming. Or [itex]\LaTeX[/itex].
 
  • #26
i have read war and peace and i know how to program a little at the moment. Dante's Divine comedy is not that big its noting compared to "paradise lost" by john milton
 
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Yeah but I don't know how much sense it makes to read translated literature.
If you want to read translated italian literature, I'd rather suggest Manzoni's The Betrothed
 
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Medicol said:
I'd look for a part-time job as a waiter in a restaurant, local mail, gift or parcel deliveryman during Winter vacation (I actually did when I was a student), supermarkets, 7-11, Lawson, K-Circle aka all convenience store also hire a lot of people...
He's not old enough, he just turned 15.
 

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