Are you stuck in a super boring lecture that felt like it's getting nowhere? Are you in class just casually waiting for your teacher who turns out won't be teaching because there's a teacher meeting right in the teacher's lounge? Or are you waiting for your extracurricular club to start when in reality you know your club coach won't be coming anytime soon? Well, you've come to the right place. I too, felt like teachers are disappointing sometimes, they show up late and they come in as they please just to give you assignments, with the intention to keep you busy as they slack off for the next classes. In this article, I will be listing out stuff to do if you got in one of the situations above. I will list it based on some criteria, e.g. based on if you have a company or not, based on place, and based on how crowded the area you’re stuck in.
- Based on company
- Friend required
- Vandalize the class’ chairs with whiteouts and permanent markers. This one’s depends if the chairs and desks in your class are already vandalized or not. In my case, I always got classes that are already in bad condition, mainly because I'm not academically smart so I got placed in lower ranks of class. But I see this as an advantage, because I like to vandalize the chairs in my class, and what better way to do it than with your friend or deskmate! I have an artist friend who is my half-deskmate (she sits in front of me) so when there's no teachers around we sometimes use our other friends’ whiteouts and permanent markers to write on chairs and desks, and we usually write offensive stuff because there's so much offensive stuff already written on those chairs anyway so why not? And also doodles of random characters we knew and loved. I highly recommend this one, but make sure there’s no teachers around when you attempt this!
- Rating Gyatt. This seems a bit chaotic but it’s really fun to do along with a friend, but before you do this, make sure the friend you do this with aren’t sensitive around this subject, in other words, make sure they’re cool with it.
- Go on Pinterest and do Buzzfeed quizzes. This is mostly fun with friends around, though you could do it by yourself, I suppose, but it’s less awkward with a friend, because if we want to laugh at stupid quiz questions, might as well laugh at it with a friend, so that you won’t look like a crazy person in class or you won’t wheeze yourself trying to hold your laugh.
- Friend optional
- Making DIY envelopes with drawings inside. There’s this tutorial on how to make an envelope without needing any glue using origami and ever since I learn how to make that I’ve always fold one every time I’m bored. And after you’re done with the envelope, you can make small drawings/doodle/writings using leftover papers and put it inside the envelope as a fun surprise. After doing that, you can either keep the envelope to yourself or you could give it to someone, and an even better idea, hid it in random place at school for someone to find.
- Make zines! This is my most favorite thing to do in class by myself because sometimes I like to take a break from my friends, they're exhausting. But, you can easily create zines, all you need are stationeries or office supplies and paper from your notebook or copy paper, they both work. You just need to lay out the paper horizontally, then fold the left part to the right part of the paper into 2 rectangles (if you took your paper from the middle of your notebook, it's already folded this way), fold it from left to right again, and finally undone the folds and fold them from up to down, and the last step is you have to go back to the first fold and cut through the middle fold until the next rectangle touches. Now you have to unfold all of them and hold on on the left and right part of the paper horizontally and touch both sides, folding the trimmed part of the paper. There you have a simple 8-page zine! There's so much you can do in it, you can turn it into a mini sketchbook and hand-drawn magazine, and more!
- Friend required
- Based on place
- School library
- Read Books. Dude. There’s no excuse for being bored there, because you’re in a library, the most awesome place at school. You can search for books, and I’ll guarantee you, just searching for books to read could take hours, so it’s a really time consuming activity.
- Play board games. Fine, if you’re bored with books, I guess you could find various board games that are available to be borrowed in the school library. Some of which are usually Scrabble, Jenga, Uno cards, and other board games, depending on your school’s facility.
- Your Classroom
- Make a fake newspaper out of a sheet of paper. Grab your notebook, rip a page and fold it like a newspaper. Then, you can create fake newspaper name (I like to use ‘Daily Punctilio’, A Series Of Unfortunate Events reference), and create the headline of the newspaper based on the latest gossip you’ve heard around the class. You can add fake ads on the newspaper as well, in fact it’s my favorite part, make some hilarious ad like a “gold-covered rice cooker” that’s supposed to make your rice smell better or some stuff. That’s the beauty of a fake newspaper, it’s fake, so might as well put fake information in it!
- Computer Lab
- Play online games. Now, school computers usually banned a couple of online game sites, but you can try your luck with some of the sites like itch.io, crazygames.com, friv.com/friv4school.com, and other game sites.
- Not Your Classroom
- Unique items, search for things that weren't in your classroom. Some strange closet filled with abandoned project, maybe? There's this one class that I'm stuck in sometimes, their english teacher have some sort of disease and we have to share our teacher with them in the same period, and I'll tell you, their class has zero fans or air conditioners that work, so every time it's english, we have to remind ourselves that it’s only for 2 periods, and we can get the hell outta there in one and a half hour. And that’s when I observe my surroundings more.
- Art Room
- Make mixed media art. If you’re allowed to touch any supplies there (most of the time you are) you can mix a bunch of them into a canvas/paper and create an abstract mixed-media masterpiece in it! You can add little details of figures, silhouette of an animal, maybe flowers, and more so that your canvas won’t look too abstract.
- Paper art! Just grab any paper, ruler, scissor, or even better, origamis. You can never get bored if you have a bunch of origamis in your hands. You can make simple bookmarks, envelopes, cootie catcher/fortune teller, and anything, really. If you don’t see any origamis, you can grab a normal copy paper or those colored paper and cut them into a square, and you can start folding.
- School Field
- Sit under a tree. Assuming your school field has a lot of trees like mine, it’s awesome there, so you should definitely try sitting under a tree and doing different activities like playing video games on your phone, or reading a book you’ve borrowed from the library or a book you’ve brought yourself.
- Play “Identify the living being!” Our school field is full of weird plants, mushrooms, animals, it's basically a zoo out there. Of course if your school’s field is more organized than mine, then it'll be hard to find living beings other than yourself out there there. But see it as a challenge to get over the boredom you're experiencing. Me and my friends usually find some weird, unidentified plants, mushrooms, and animals out in the field, and we like to identify them, and if none of us know what it's called, we found out by Google Lens or any Biology teacher that passed by.
- School library
- Based on public level
- Crowded area
- Listen to music through your phone speaker. I’ve done this plenty of times, because I’m always stuck at my own classroom full of delinquents, I can’t hear anything on there. But, I do enjoy listening to music, but sometimes, I forgot to bring my earphones, so I listen to them through my phone speaker. You could do this by putting your phone right next to your ear or by laying down your phone in your desk and do the “sleeping in class” position. And the best thing about it is, no one else can hear your music except you! Another fun thing to listen to is music quiz like Whisperify.net, it’s a site where you could connect your Spotify and it will play a few seconds of songs from your top tracks or your playlist and see if you can guess the title.
- Write. Most of the time, I write when class is really busy and crowded, and I write most of my blog posts there, even though I prefer writing with my computer at home, while listening to music, and nothing interrupts, but since I don’t have anything to do in class/other places, I might as well use the time for something good, like writing. Writing in public places does affects my ideas too, I became more open in letting ideas flow into the words I wrote, and that’s what creates this blog altogether. I really recommend doing this because time really pass when you’re in a writing state, and you won’t get bored while doing it.
- Quiet place
- Play video games on your phone. So, you might ask why must you do this when you’re in a quiet place, no, it’s not because you need to hear the game, it’s because I, myself, don’t like to play video games when there’s strangers up in my back. So, I only play video games in public if there’s no one else that can really pay attention to it. I mostly play video games like Cookie Run: Kingdom, Cookie Run: Ovenbreak, Wordle, Equestria Girls, My Little Pony, and Roblox on my phone, because most of my video games is on my computer, but I will play what I have at the time.
- Draw. Now, this is mostly because of personal preferences as well, but I can’t really draw anything if someone’s staring or looking, so when there’s no one around, it’s my time to shine! Grab a notebook (or sketchbook, if you brought yours) and some drawing supplies like pencil, eraser, pen, and other supplies. And get to drawing!
- Crowded area
This is the last post this month outside the Guerilla Street Art project, but don’t worry next week I will be posting about the first week of Origami arc of the project! And I believe we don’t have any more interval posts outside of the Guerilla Street Art project any time soon, so this could be the last!
I believe that’s all I had to write, because to be fair I’m not quite knowledgeable about this any more than any of you, so if you have more ideas on what to do with free times at school you could write them in the comment space down below, and that’s all, folks!
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