4 months, nothing to do, give me ideas!

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4 months, nothing to do, give me ideas!

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Alright so here is my situation, I just finished my first year in college, I now have 4 months of summer vacation. With absolutely nothing to do. And I mean nothing. Over the past week or so I have came up with a small list of things to do over this time

1) upgrade xbox ram
2) write 2nd GBA game (Tower Defense or Security like game)
3) finish robot, finish python code for robot
4) write XBMC python script
5) exercise / get into shape
6) finish feedback project

Now what I need from you guys, is actual suggestions (not smartypants comments) about what I should do.
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Re: 4 months, nothing to do, give me ideas!

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1-Get a Girlfriend/Boyfriend
2-Get a Job to pay for your gaming addictions, bf or gf
3-Read dictionary
4-Collect Vinyls from musicians past, to enrich your musical tastes
5-Create a web comic
6-Alphabetize your DVD collection, autobiographically by date when you purchased them
7-Film a short film called "The summer of null" and hilight every day of the 4 months
8-Build your own working Sega Neptune machine, using only a box of paperclips and a bag of peat moss
9-If you have a hardwood floor, use a pocketknife to clean in between the small boards
10-Write a novel, about if you were a ghost and observing you writing a novel, then make a movie, profit.
11-Volunteer at your local video game store, and seize your time to be an elitist gaming Nazi
12-Weave your own shirt from the webby yarn out of a spider's ass
13-Violate the first law of robotics
14-Teach your dog how to use the lawnmower, and your cat to do laundry, so you can have time to do numbers 1-13

Cheers!
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Re: 4 months, nothing to do, give me ideas!

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Xonticus wrote:1-Get a Girlfriend/Boyfriend
2-Get a Job to pay for your gaming addictions, bf or gf
3-Read dictionary
4-Collect Vinyls from musicians past, to enrich your musical tastes
5-Create a web comic
6-Alphabetize your DVD collection, autobiographically by date when you purchased them
7-Film a short film called "The summer of null" and hilight every day of the 4 months
8-Build your own working Sega Neptune machine, using only a box of paperclips and a bag of peat moss
9-If you have a hardwood floor, use a pocketknife to clean in between the small boards
10-Write a novel, about if you were a ghost and observing you writing a novel, then make a movie, profit.
11-Volunteer at your local video game store, and seize your time to be an elitist gaming Nazi
12-Weave your own shirt from the webby yarn out of a spider's ass
13-Violate the first law of robotics
14-Teach your dog how to use the lawnmower, and your cat to do laundry, so you can have time to do numbers 1-13

Cheers!


haha, that gave me a good laugh, I do like number 1, but I'm lazy haha.
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Well, I guess from an artistic point of view, numbers 4, 5, 7 and 10 are interesting and feasible, but the rest are bullocks. Yet it is true, if you plan accordingly, you too can fill your summer with these fun steps!
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If you are like me. Plan nothing. I tried that in my first summer vacation from Uni. I planned all these things to do, and I accomplished none of them. You know why? Because they all felt like work, and I didn't want to do work, I'd just done a full 9 months of it. The last thing on my mind was to do something constructive with my time.

Just sit back, relax, do stuff you enjoy doing, complete a few games, just don't spend too much time indoors!
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Get a job, buy video games, play video games.
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Seriously, get a summer job. What do you do for money?
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.. Im going to guess your parents are paying for everything.

Good luck when you get to real life dude.
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I dunno about you guys, but I have been wasting away 4 months and counting without a job, and I have no idea where it went to. I mean I enjoyed myself, but I can't think of anything I really did. I'm ganna really miss not having to wake up to an alarm clock.
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