Sylvie Goldner, ‘21

March 2020

A guide created by fellow classmates of things you can do now to make your time at home a little more enjoyable!

Self Care

1. Face masks

1. Meditate

2. Make homemade scrub

3. Don’t stay up too late every night

4. Change out of pajamas each morning so it feels like a real day

5. Set a routine (get up at the same time every day, eat meals at regular times, get some fresh air, etc) -- follow your regular school schedule for some structure, even if you’re just doing online work at that set time

Activities

1. MAKE A QUARANTINE VLOG SERIES

2. Draw or paint

3. Make friendship bracelets

4. Organize your room/closet  

5. Play a ton of board games

6. Write poetry

7. GROUP FACETIME #houseparty

8. Write a song and journal 

9. Make DIY candles

10. Study for the SAT/ACT/SAT2s

11. College research

12. Read outside (on your fire escape)

13. Duolingo -- learn another language

14. Practice an instrument

15. Learn Tik Tok dances

16. Learn something new!  (instrument, craft, language, gardening, Ayurveda) 

17. Play a lot of Minecraft

18. Play SIMS 4 (currently $6 on Origin)

Food To Make 

1. Earl Grey Yogurt Cake  

2. Apple cider donuts  

3. Fruit tart

4. Whipped coffee

5. Risotto! If you have a pressure cooker it’s 10/10

6. Homemade challah is a win. 

7. Muffins Galore 

8. 3 ingredient nutella brownies 

9. Kombucha 

10. Apple Cinnamon Cake

11. Try to perfect the chocolate chip cookie

12. Flourless Brownies

13. Baked apples :)

14. Make homemade bread 

Movies

1. Always Be My Maybe

2. About Time

3. Love Actually

4. Shawshank Redemption

5. Sophie’s Choice

6. The Hangover

7. The Big Lebowski

8. SuperBad

9. Booksmart

10. Parasite 

11. Midsommar (If you want to go crazy)

12. Chef

13. Julie & Julia

14. Any Miyazaki movie (Totoro, Spirited Away, etc)

15. Napoleon Dynamite (if you want a good laugh)

16. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

17. The House Bunny (Bad but good)

18. Assasination Nation (looks dumb but it is VERY GOOD)

19. Space Jam

20. Rom coms!!! When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Hitch, Sleepless in Seattle, Three Weddings and a Funeral

21. Feel good movies: Life is beautiful and Clueless

22. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

TV Shows

1. Cheer

2. College Behind Bars (Bard’s Prison Initiative Docu. Series) 

3. Breaking Bad

4. Russian Doll (so so good)!

5. Elite (new season just came out)!

6. Sex Education

7. Downton Abbey

8. Brooklyn 99

9. This Is Us

10. Broad City 

11. Peaky Blinders 

12. Orange is the new black 

13. Baby (italian)

14. Quicksand (swedish)

15. Euphoria

16. The L Word

Books

1. Educated

2. I Know Where The Crawdad Sings

3. Trick Mirror

4. A Room of One's own- Virgina Woolf

5. 1984 or Animal Farm

6. Catcher in the Rye

7. Becoming

8. Of Mice and Men

9. Braiding Sweetgrass

10. Sophie’s Choice

11. Half of a Yellow Sun

12. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are

13. The Bell Jar

Podcasts

1. Criminal

2. Still Processing

3. Coffee Break (insert language you want to learn)

4. Revisionist History (so freakin’ fabulous)! 

5. Tedx radio 

6. RadioLab

7. NPR

8. The Daily (to stay updated with today’s events)

Exercise 

1. Yoga!

2. 30 day ab challenge (app) YESS!!!

3. Squat Challenge #PerfectTheBooty

4. Go on a run/walk

5. Bike!

Things Not to Do 

1. Kill a family member 

2. Touch people or be with a big group of people

3. Accidentally order too much stuff online

4. Make rice pudding 

5. Spend all your time scrolling through NYT articles

6. Stay in bed and pajamas all day

7. Be on screens all day

8. Overwhelm yourself with social media/media in general 

9. Stay unclean

10. MISS ZOOM CLASSES

11. Forget what day of the week it is

12. Forget about work

13. WATCH THE JESUS ROLLS

BARD

1. Wake up ON TIME for Zoom

2. Catch up on work/readings

3. Be aware of how you look on Zoom 

4. Don’t get behind on assignments!