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Do not panic.
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Make your bed in the morning and establish a mental separation.
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Experiment with cooking elaborate breakfast food – now that you have all the time in the world.
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Take a bath.
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Browse through the Met’s art collection online.
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Apply to some of the art grants we’ve told you about before.
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Watch Outbreak on Netflix and try to pretend that we aren’t basically living it.
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Paint your room.
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Clean your room.
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Deep clean your kitchen and/or reorganize your pantry.
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Practice yoga at home with these free tutorials on Youtube.
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Make a three course lunch: load up on your veggies and check these food items that you should add to your diet to boost your immunity.
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Call your parents.
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Take social media breaks to keep your sanity (that includes news coverage and other Coronavirus related info).
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While you’re detoxing from social media, get back into reading.
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Check out this spreadsheet of open resources and recommendations for things to read / podcasts to listen to.
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Have a Google Hangout / FaceTime session with your friends.
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Utilize Google Earth’s street view to take a virtual walk outside, and visit your favorite spots in the city.
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Show your plants some TLC.
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Journal.
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Hang all the frames that you’ve put off hanging because you “had no time.”
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While we’re on the home improvement train, now’s the time to build the IKEA furniture that you haven’t gotten around to doing yet.
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Get creative with your snacking: make healthy, wholesome snacks with nuts and yogurt.
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Make your own dried fruits or protein bars.
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Make your own peanut butter.
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Make a big batch of tea.
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Learn a new recipe.
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Learn a new skincare routine.
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Try a trick from an Instagram DIY video.
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Start a Tik-Tok account.
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Go through the pile of papers on your desk and reorganize/throw what isn’t needed.
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Learn a new language.
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Shoot your shot with your crush because… literally why not?
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Catch up on correspondence: answer emails you haven’t had the chance to yet, write some letters, practice your penmanship.
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Organize your computer desktop: get rid of files you no longer need.
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Go through your phone gallery and delete pictures / screenshots / unnecessary photos. Thank us later.
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Go through your Instagram list and unfollow people you no longer interact with or those whose feeds bring you no joy. Marie Kondo that shit!
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Change your bedsheets. (
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Redecorate your room by looking up Feng Shui tutorials online.
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Create a moodboard for your future start-up and/or business idea.
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Why we’re at it, look into a business strategy for said business.
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Learn how to code and make your own webpage by ways of free online classes.
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Learn how to make your own hand sanitizer from Aloe Vera extract and rubbing alcohol.
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Do your taxes.
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Listen to records.
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Get to know your roommates better (if you don’t live alone).
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Play dress-up.
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Exfoliate.
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Dance alone in your room.
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And lastly, get some rest!