It’s been over a week since the last day of classes, and finals studying is in full force. The prospect of two weeks on campus with no classes seemed like it might be fun. There would be so much time for activities – if only that pesky thing called “studying” were not in the way of you and holiday-spirited revelry with friends. After that sentiment fled, Lau became a time-warping alternate universe of notecards, Word documents and cabin fever. However, we know that Hoyas have other things on their minds than studying.

We asked what you’d rather do than study for exams … and here’s what Hoyas have to say:

1. Sleeping
2. Running a marathon, because it would be less painful
3. Playing with my pet bird
4. Watching Elf
5. Drinking
6. Traveling back in time to actually pay attention in class the first time around
7. Stealing the Healy clock hands while everyone is too busy on Lau 2 to notice
8. Watching TV
9. Apparently reading Thought Catalog, since I’ve been doing that for the last hour
10. Studying something I’m more interested in
11. Lying next to a crackling fire with hot cocoa while watching all 8 Harry Potter movies
12. Cuddling and listening to Christmas music
13. Figuring out how much wood a woodchuck actually would chuck
14. Squash
15. I’m not really sure it’s appropriate
16. Dancing
17. Watching a movie
18. Christina Hendricks
19. Watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on my bed with my dog and a hot piece o’ ‘za
20. Playing soccer
21. Watching the entire series of New Girl online. Oh wait, that IS what I’m doing.
22. Tanning on the beach in San Diego
23. Flying a blimp!
24. WATCHING MRS. DOUBTFIRE, DUH!
25. Eating a banana Nutella crepe
26. Literally anything
27. Be on a tennis court, racquet in one hand, beer in the other
28. Kissin’ my dog on the lips
29. SITTING ANYWHERE THAT DOESN’T HAVE FLUORESCENT LIGHTING
30. Going to the premiere of the new Hobbit movie solely for Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug
31. Eating a wheel of cheese, but the wheel has lots of different sections and each one is a different kind of cheese
32. Snapchatting the entire song “Royals” line by line while dressed as Lorde
33. Walking through Costco eating free samples while drinking a slushie
34. (This response was deemed too explicit to print on 4E)
35. Babysitting Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s kids
36. At home, on my couch, watching the latest episode of Homeland with a warm slice of pizza from my fave pizza restaurant
37. Making a gingerbread house
38. Flossing my teeth
39. Hiking in the Adirondacks and eating PB&Js and trail mix with my two favorite people in the world
40. Taking my chances with a poisonous frog
41. Laying in bed covered in puppies
42. Wrestling a great white shark
43. Catching the rats in Darnall with a loincloth and a small hunting spear
44. Scouring the city for knives to donate to Leo’s
45. Petting little Jack … for hours

So there you have it. That’s everything you’d rather be doing than studying for finals… Now get back to studying for finals.

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