Lazy Day

Lazy Day Its Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June. Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I wont need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed beforecontemplating going back to sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the afternoon.) You might have thought that, as an MIT student, I could find plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons to get started with them. Sure, I could do stuff, but today I dont feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Yes, Im practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only Im working toward a college degree (whenever Im not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars by already having musical talent. Oh look, an embedded music video!I had many, many, many lazy days as a rising freshman about to enter college. I even gave them names out of affection: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The only reason Saturday and Sunday werent included was because I worked a combined 15 hours each weekend. The only exception I make to unbridled laziness is making enough money to make me happy. But hey, dont get me wrong you can do a lot of other things in the summer before you matriculate to MIT, like Take an actual vacation, be it out of state or somewhere else thats in or out of town. Head to the beach. Get tan! (Or get a sunburn, whatever happens to apply to you.) Catch up with your friends and just hang out. Eat some ice cream. If you can, take on the Vermonster. Watch a dozen or so movies. Hint: they re-releasing the Lord of the Rings movies. Eat Chipotle (instead of Annas) (on the daily, if at all possible). Play Frisbee! (And avoid Frisbee-related injuries). Hit up some graduation parties and enjoy time with your fellow graduates. Jam out with some musical friends. Relax in a Jacuzzi and pretend to be incredibly rich (or, alternatively, be incredibly rich, if that describes you). Go swimming! (Or pretend that you know how, if you were me last summer). Play manhunt in the dead of night in an area of your neighborhood filled with trees. Subsequently wonder how it is that you never managed to get lost in the dark. Credit your innate sense of direction before realizing that you opened up Google Maps on your cell phone. Sleep in late for more than 10 hours or for more than 12. Yep, no need to do anything serious. I did a bunch of these things in the summer before matriculating (especially the sleeping part!), and it was one of the better decisions that I made. I figured I had already worked hard in the last four years, so why should I put in more time to do more crazy things? To put it another way: what was three months of not doing anything going to do to my admission to MIT? Turns out the answer to that last question sounded pretty good to me: three months of nothing wasnt going to change things in the slightest. You might as well just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the incoming freshmen: enjoy your downtime. If youve already managed to book yourself silly with commitments, well, whoops. If not, then just kick back and relax! You deserved it.