Two weeks from now you’ll be in the midst of spring break, that happy hiatus between the bleakest and the brightest quarters. In one week’s time you will molt from studied hermit into prancing California college kid. Here’s how to do it.

 

Not Checking Grades

Sure you know that grades will be due at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 27and will be available as soon as your professor has posted them—providing you have completed your evaluations. Obviously. But this isn’t a time for grades, it’s a time for spring and break and everything non-Stanford related.

 

Bronzing Your Largest Organ

Wilbur Field, that grassy patch near GovCo and the Claw are crooning your name. Fountain hopping is a Stanford tradition for a reason—we’re located in sunny California, so make sure your sun-bathed bod matches that bathing suit and get ready for spring quarter, partially clothed. Of course, remember to stay healthy and hit up that 30 SPF. Sunburn never looks good in a fountain.

 

Catching Up on Television

We would tell you this is important because you’ll be so busy with school during spring quarter, but who are we kidding? You’ll be busy alright—parties, concerts and generally being outside (and not near study materials) will occupy so much of your time that you’ll want to catch up on your two-dimensional friends’ lives before resuming your real one come spring quarter. And with entire discographies of shows like “Mad Men” and “Skins” accessible on Netflix and Hulu, we think you’ll have plenty of watchin’ to do.

 

Start up that Start-Up

This one’s for all those fuzzies out there—techies be doing this one on the daily. Now that you can put down your first edition “Hamlet,” find some time to do that project you’ve always wanted to do. Make a “Stuff Techies Say” video, write your first screenplay, experiment with web design— heck! The possibilities are endless! Just make sure you don’t recruit any overzealous techies to help with the programming. #SawThatMovie

 

Recreate Yourself

By this point in your Stanford career, you’ve probably heard it in some form or another: “We were all nerds in high school!” If this doesn’t apply to you, you’re probably just in denial. If by this point at Stanford you haven’t completely recreated yourself from a bashful dork into a robust popular kid, let your spring break transform you into the proverbial badass you’ve always aspired to. That, or read Stewart MacGregor-Dennis’ 40-page life plan.