Still spending more time online than in real world, socializing with your friends? You have to do something about it! How about creating a real social networking, in real life? Read on to find out more and be sure to check out part 1 of this article, which should shed some more light on this topic!
Social networks exist in fact and function even to a greater extent in the usual life of communities around the world, from the smallest and most remote village to the busiest cities and the liveliest university campuses.
Life itself in a human society truly is the best social network that you can find, as no amount of online social networking quite compares to meeting people in person and doing things together.
So use online social networks for the opportunities they offer to expand your horizons, but don’t forget to explore as well what is in fact closest to you: your life lived and full experiences with your family, friends and people that live in the same town, city, or country.
To do so, make sure that you don’t spend too much time online and spend instead more time with your family and with your friends, both old and new.
Do you spend too much time online?
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Online social networks can surely be fun, interesting and downright useful: you get to read about the most diverse things, find out the most hilarious, outrageous or curious facts, discover new places, new thoughts, new ways of thinking, new people. But all those uses are truly valuable only as long as you take them and use them in fact to enrich your whole life.
After all, you have only a limited amount of time every day and spending too much of it on online social networks can be done only at the expense of your activity in offline social networks.
Does that matter? Of course it does! To see just how much it matters being an active part of your offline social network and not only of an online one, let’s explore what offline social networks really are and why you should spend more time as their active member.
What are offline social networks?
Similarly to their online counterparts, offline social networks are groups of people that are linked together by some common interest or activity. The main and crucial difference is that the links between members of offline social networks are often tighter than those that are established online: after all, online you can discuss with the other members and share thoughts, images and sounds, but offline you can share the experience of playing, working, having fun and simply being together.
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On a campus where unhealthy food is rather abundant, exercise is not mandatory, sleepless nights are quite often the norm and exam stress builds up, you might think that healthy living is truly impossible.
Not at all: healthy living in college and on the campus is just as possible as anywhere else and at any other time, if not even cheaper!
After all, it’s in fact just about the only time when you have access to a gym for free, so why not take advantage of it? Living a healthy life in college, as at any other time, is all about knowing and applying the basics: eat healthy, exercise frequently, get enough sleep, reduce stress.
Eat Healthy
Eating healthy can be easier than you might think. There is no need for detailed plans and counting of calories, it is enough to follow a few simple rules:
1. Start your every day by having breakfast. Healthiest for breakfast are whole-grain cereals or even a bagel with some cheese or jam, but avoid bacon, muffins and eggs.
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With all the stories that you hear about sleepless nights, stress before exams and even infamous weight gains, college life might sound the very opposite of healthy living. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way: healthy living in college is entirely possible.
The even better news is that healthy living in college is possible while still having fun, making friends and studying hard. It’s just about making healthy living choices part of your each activity rather than a separate topic by itself.
Don’t approach healthy eating and exercise as chores or deprivations, unless you really want them to feel that way. Instead, go for the fun activities of making friends and hanging out with them, but with a (very healthy) twist. Cooking for friends, meeting for jogging rather than for lunch, studying together and even being the designated driver for the evenings out are just some ways to healthy and fun living in college.
Cooking for Friends
People tend to like those that cook for them and even better those with whom they cook and share the meal afterwards. Get yourself some basic pots, utensils and healthy ingredients, a few easy recipes and invite people over for a cooking party rather than a drinking party. If you are not really good at cooking, don’t worry: fellow students are among the least demanding people when it comes to freshly cooked food and any cooking mistakes are likely to just add to the fun.
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Giving in to distractions from studying is in fact just a form of procrastination as any other. Instead of doing what you should do (studying), you do all kind of other things, from looking out the window at every five minutes or so to checking your email, sending messages, chatting, browsing the web or playing games.
The good news however is the fact that distractions, just like any other form of procrastination, can be used to your benefit. How to do that? First of all by understanding why you get distracted in the first place and then by choosing the good distractions over the bad ones.
Why Do You Get Distracted?
The most common view is that distractions from studying simply happen because something catches your eye, an expected noise breaks your concentration or a sudden urge to check your email overpowers you.
However, unless your study environment is entirely unsuited for studying (and then you should just change it), such distractions are in fact caused by either a need to take a break or the very simple fact that what you have to do is rather difficult and not entirely enjoyable. Both those underlying reasons for distraction can be used to your advantage, once you take the time to understand which one applies.
If you get distracted simply because the task is difficult or you don’t find it enjoyable at all, there are a few solutions to try: break down the task into several smaller, more manageable parts; set yourself a treat for when you actually do the task (or each of the parts); finally, start working on something even less enjoyable (you will be surprised how compelled you might be to return to studying).
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