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What do you do with your free time?
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What do you do with your free time between lectures/seminars at uni?
I have a 3 hour gap (was 4!) between lectures on a Wednesday and I don't know what I should do with my free time.
I don't want to go shopping or whatever every week because I'll end up poor.
I don't want to go to the union because it isn't that great.
Going to the cinema would become boring.
I could go home but there would be no point and I'd end up not going.
So what do you do?
I have a 3 hour gap (was 4!) between lectures on a Wednesday and I don't know what I should do with my free time.
I don't want to go shopping or whatever every week because I'll end up poor.
I don't want to go to the union because it isn't that great.
Going to the cinema would become boring.
I could go home but there would be no point and I'd end up not going.
So what do you do?
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When I've had longer breaks, I've either grabbed some food and drink, played on the interenet, shopping if it's needed, if i've got assignments on then i've worked on them. Otherwise I have been known to go home, but then I have a bad habit of not making it back in.
I head to the library but I'm in my final year so it is a must! You have access to the internet all over campus so even if you're not doing something uni related you can do that. If you are out in the West End like me you could go to the Transport Museum if you were really bored :P Or if you are based in Glasgow city centre you have the whole city at your doorstep! :thumb:
Failing that i just go home and end up skiving the next lecture/seminar
Now you're talking crazy talk!
Ah, I spend half my life in the SU bar. Usually Tuesdays between my lunch and work at 4 is bar time
Well personally speaking, I would study anyway, then when you have Monday and Tuesday off maybe you can spend more time relaxing and doing something you want to do, rather than doing something just to fill up the time.
On my day of hell I have lectures at 9, 11, 1.15, 2.15, 4.15 and 5.15 (each an hour long). I study in between, maybe stuff I was just given in the last lecture, maybe stuff I have to do for the next lecture, maybe other stuff entirely. I find that as I'm in a study area and there's not a lot of time to get stuff done, I won't procrastinate as much, so it's a very productive day. I get Fridays off so I can justify doing next to nothing the whole day as I worked so hard the previous day, which is great!
Other things I do occasionally in between lectures:
- go into town and look round the charity shops (then, even if I buy things I don't really need, at least the money's gone to a good cause!)
- go for coffee with a friend
- read a book
- mess around on the internet
Alot of the time though, I end up with my mates doing nothing very productive. Haha.
being a third year is so very sexy.
please cherish your first and second years while you can.
See I don't understand this library lark. i've been in 4 times in the 4 years i've been at uni. Final year isn't making any difference to that. But yeah in comparrison 1st and 2nd year were a walk in the park. Work load is at least twice as heavy if not more so in the final year.
I do an hour of work in the library, then go to the pub and have a baguette, a shot of jeigemeister and two pints of snakebite. Makes the second lecture much more bearable!!!
my final year is worse in terms of spending time at the library because i have more work to do..which you said was the same for you so i don't understand what you mean?
It's more that even though I have more work to do the library is the last place I'd go to do it. Everything I could ever need is online, so taking the laptop and sitting in one of the numerous pubs around town with free wifi access having a good natter and a few drinks works so much better for me.
Else I'm usually found in the library.