4 Tips for Thanksgiving Break Bliss

Posted on by Julie Mathis

Thanksgiving Break can be a very blissful time for most college students. If you’re lucky, you can bring home all your laundry and have mom cook you real food. It’s the much-needed break you get right before the stress of final exams. Here are 4 tips for Thanksgiving Break bliss.

1. Take Naps

Thanksgiving Break naps

Since it is getting close to finals, taking time in the afternoon to take a break and get a nap in will help you stay refreshed. Throughout the semester, you have worked hard studying, researching and/or writing. You should try to take a break for at least an hour or two a day from your schedule to rest for finals. It is best to begin studying some several weeks in advance for your finals. You need all of the sleep you can get to do your best after spending most of your time and energy on your studies for the last three to four months. Let’s be real, taking a nap never disappoints!

2. Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade

Thanksgiving Break parade

A great way to celebrate Thanksgiving before the meal is to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade on tv. If you oversleep that morning, you can tape it and watch it later. If you wake up in time to watch it live,  watch it with family and friends. It’s interesting to see what new floats and entertainment that is used every year for the parade to celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s also a good way to forget about class for a while and embrace your inner child.

 3. Spend Time with Family

Thanksgiving Break family      

If you are traveling home for the Thanksgiving Break, it’s great to spend time with your family since you have been away from home all semester. You can help out with the cooking, enjoy the fall weather, watch football or play games while catching up with everything going on in each other’s lives.

4. Decorate and Get Ready for Christmas

 Thanksgiving Break Christmas decorating

Since Thanksgiving is followed up by Christmas, you can spend some time over Thanksgiving weekend picking out a Christmas tree. It can be a bonding experience with your immediate family to decorate the tree and your house together for the upcoming holiday. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can go shopping with your family on Black Friday early and get the best deals on Christmas, or just wait for Cyber Monday to avoid the crowds. 🙂

Taking time to spend time with your family and friends during the holiday is a great way to get a break from school before finals. We hope these tips help you have yourself a blissful Thanksgiving Break…

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About Julie Mathis

Julie Mathis was born in Birmingham, Al. on December 29, 1988, where she grew up as an only child. She attended Samford University, a prestigious private university in Birmingham where she majored in Nursing and I received honor medals from being included in the Dean’s List my freshman and sophomore years. She was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta freshman honor society, and became a member of the fraternity, Zeta Tau Alpha. She then attended Birmingham-Southern College, one of America’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges, where she became a member of the honor society for English majors, Sigma Tau Delta, and graduated with the honorary status of Cum Laude from BSC. She is now a graduate student at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS., and she enjoys writing, reading, and studying the sciences as well as the humanities.