50 Things to do during Quarantine
Zoe Stanton-Savitz ’23
Photo by Zoe Stanton-Savitz “An evil puppet I made named Bielzebuddy”
The world has shut down, leaving many students grappling with intense boredom and struggling to maintain their sanity. Every day seems to blend together into a stream of mundane Zoom calls and perpetual procrastination –– anything but homework. Never fear, though. Whether you are on campus, in an apartment with friends, or stuck back in your parents house, The Phoenix offers a list of 50 entertaining activities to try while in isolation or quarantine.
The Irishman, screenshot courtesy of Netflix
Photo by Zoe Stanton-Savitz
Count your ceiling tiles. (Don’t have ceiling tiles? Try your bathroom tiles. Or hallway. Or kitchen.)
Separate a family-sized bag of Skittles or MnMs by color.
Drop an anvil on your foot.
Learn how to do an Irish river dance.
Drink some Fireball.
Text all your exes. If you run out of exes, schools you were accepted to but ended up not attending count too.
Watch The Irishman.
Look at pictures of baby quokkas.
Watch every Tom Hanks movie in alphabetical order.
Bang your head against a wall.
Memorize the periodic table.
Shave your eyebrows off.
Direct Message celebrities your innermost thoughts and deepest darkest secrets.
Memorize the entirety of cinematic classic The Bee Movie.
Punch a Karen in the face (not your mom though).
Cry.
Organize a box of 64 Crayola crayons by preference. (Do you prefer green-blue or blue-green?)
Have a séance. Summon some spirits.
Make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich.
Find a tiny tree frog and make them your friend.
Make tiny outfits for your tiny tree frog friend.
Marie Kondo your wardrobe.
Read War and Peace.
Watch every episode of The Simpsons.
Stare into middle distance.
Take a bath with socks on.
Listen to Murder Most Foul, Bob Dylan’s 17 minute song.
Glue your hands together with super glue.
Tape your feet together with duct tape.
Plan an elaborate heist.
Sell feet pics.
Play Just Dance.
Watch Vine compilations and mourn the app’s death.
Learn Klingon.
Overthrow the government.
Invent a new color.
Switch bodies with your mother on a Friday and see things from her perspective.
Find Bigfoot.
Learn how to drive a stick shift.
Eat quinoa and wonder what all the fuss is about.
Chug a gallon of milk
Hug a tree.
Gaze wistfully out of a window.
Wait in line at the DMV.
Learn the difference between affect and effect.
Watch the entirety of a three-hour ambience Youtube video (Example here).
Shake fist at God.
Make a puppet.
Have an ideological debate with Siri.
Read The Phoenix!