What to Do with Free Time: Enjoy or Be Productive?

[loseyourname]

I just got back from a vacation in Lancaster County, PA, and I spent pretty much the entire time learning about the region and its history by visiting museums, heritage centers, and touring the local farms and towns, and, of course, nearby revolutionary battlefields and colonial encampments.

 

[cristo]

I also recommend reading- it will improve your vocabulary to no end (and not just for the 'memorise as many words as you can' GRE exam). It should also help with grammar: i find it amazing the number of college science graduates who don't know the difference between their and there, or your and you're!

 

[seycyrus]

reading, having fun, learning a language and maybe have some programming courses that I don't enjoy...good list.

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When YOU were on vacation, back in your college years, what did you do? and what do you think you should have done?

Get some non-science books. A few classics. A Tale of Two Cities. Brothers Karamazov etc. Read em and don't hesitate to reread or re-reread the last 10 pages you just read. Those will give you a common gtound enabling you to socialize with the intellectuals in other fields rather than your own.

Go to a coffeeshop and read. The hippy chicks will come.

 

[DT_tokamak]

Get some non-science books. A few classics. A Tale of Two Cities. Brothers Karamazov etc. Read em and don't hesitate to reread or re-reread the last 10 pages you just read. Those will give you a common gtound enabling you to socialize with the intellectuals in other fields rather than your own.

Go to a coffeeshop and read. The hippy chicks will come.

Well I'm still in college and I try to balance my vacation time. I might take a week off and do nothing intellectual, but not an entire Summer. I'd try to read something, study something, exercise and burn a few extra calories...

I'll second seycyrus's suggestion.

 

[seycyrus]

Well I'm still in college and I try to balance my vacation time. I might take a week off and do nothing intellectual, but not an entire Summer. I'd try to read something, study something, exercise and burn a few extra calories...

I'll second seycyrus's suggestion.

Esp, the part about the hippy chicks, I bet :)

 

[AhmedEzz]

That would be nice too...