100 things to do when you’re bored while social distancing
50 activities to appeal to your normal side and 50 activities for your inner MVHS student
March 22, 2020
Regular People
- Go exercise (run, bike, walk, the possibilities are
endless) - Star gaze
- Learn calligraphy
- Organize your room/closet (Learn from Marie Kondo)
- Start a CoronaVlog
- Cook at least one meal yourself
- Take an online class
- Paint something (anything)
- Play a card game with your family
- Read a new book
- Binge watch as many TV shows and movies by getting a free trial on streaming platforms
- Watch an Academy Award winning movie
- Learn a TikTok dance
- Write a letter of gratitude
- Take some useless quizzes on Buzzfeed
- Take your dog on a walk
- Play game pigeon
- Watch Netflix with your friends using Netflix Party (Chrome Extension)
- Bake a cake from scratch
- Do a home workout
- Hike Mission Peak
- Group FaceTime with your friends
- Play skribble.io
- Complete a puzzle
- Take a bubble bath
- Have a Harry Potter movie marathon
- Host an indoor picnic
- Meditate
- Look through an old family album
- Listen to a podcast
- Make boba at home
- Create coronavirus memes
- Learn a magic trick
- Make an origami crane
- Create a stop motion video
- Organize your bookshelf
- Read the news
- Host an online dance party
- Make a pillow fort
- Pitch a tent and camp in your backyard
- Dye your hair
- Learn how to French/Dutch braid
- Make elephant toothpaste
- Identify different types of soda blindfolded
- Star gaze
- Wash your parent’s car
- Complete Driver’s Education
- Make your own slime
- Play videogames on Discord with your friends
- Get sleep — lots of it.
MVHS Students
- Practice touch-typing
- Create a calligraphy study guide
- Prepare for AP tests in May
- Prepare for next year’s AP tests
- Memorize the periodic table
- Read your math textbook
- Watch a TED Talk on better study habits
- Finish AP Chemistry on Khan Academy
- Take a USACO practice test
- Update your resume
- Learn C++
- Enroll in a hackathon
- Finish Quizlet Write Mode for all the next chapter’s vocabulary
- Memorize the first 100 digits of pi
- Start a non-profit focused on helping students unable to take the SAT because of the health concerns surrounding COVID-19 (caused by the novel coronavirus)
- Write a short novel
- Prepare for the SAT/ACT
- Take the SAT for fun
- Create your college list
- Watch a documentary
- Take an IQ test
- Learn the life story of your favorite mathematician
- Start a research project about the effects of staying at home for extended periods of time
- Memorize the chemical formula of ten household items
- Create an app to help senior citizens stuck in nursing homes
- Learn a new language
- Enroll in an online course
- Email a Stanford professor about research opportunities
- Play chess online with strangers
- Program Geometry Dash onto your graphing calculator
- Master a new instrument
- Have a deep discussion about the stigma around feminism with three people from your literature class
- Memorize all the events that led to the French Revolution
- Learn extensively about the impacts of Type II Diabetes
- Apply for an internship at Google
- Read every single book covered in your lit curriculum
- Send memes to Ms. Parfet to brighten her day and yours
- Stalk the website of your dream school
- Play math games online
- Email your teachers about extra credit opportunities
- Eat food that is “scientifically proven” to boost your academic performance
- Take the AMC10 while on call with your math TA
- Practice AP Calculus FRQs
- Compete in an Online Quiz Bowl
- Compete in an MVHS themed Kahoot game with your friends
- Email the governor about ways to better help California deal with the coronavirus
- Read and understand Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Ask Mr. Carpenter a question on his Curious Cat
- Learn how to spell every word starting with the letter W
- Find the cure for coronavirus