Dear Abe,
It’s so cold all the time on the weekend, and Danville and Centre are so boring, Abe. What can I do on the weekends?
– Dull in Danville
Hey, friend! I know that the days are getting colder and there aren’t many activities planned since finals are coming, but don’t you worry, I’ve got your back.
Trust me, there are plenty of activities to do with friends that are indoors for when the days grow colder and no one wants to be hanging outside (unless there’s snow to play in, but when was the last time we got enough snow for that?).
I’d first suggest creating a list of movies you and your friends want to watch. Then, either by voting or using an online wheel to pick, you can have movie nights together. Movie nights with snacks are a really easy way to have fun. Whether it’s horror movies with everyone getting scared, comedies for laughs, or terrible movies just so you can laugh at them, movies with friends are a simple, relatively short activity for a weekend when you need something new to do or the school hasn’t planned anything interesting. My friends and I just recently watched Hereditary, for instance (and then watched a Bluey afterwards so we could actually sleep), and we’re planning to watch Die Hard or A Muppet Christmas Carol for Christmas.
Another fun option is cookie decorating. As the Christmas season rolls around, places like Walmart will have cookie decorating kits, and you and your friends can go together to get the shapes of cookies you want and the decorations for them. With music or a movie playing, this is an easy way to have fun (and get a good snack out of it).
Lastly, it’s been done many times on social media, but slideshow nights are guaranteed fun. If you and your friends pick a night and get together slideshows, it can be a pretty easy way to have a few hours of fun. From experience, the funniest are always comparing people to characters in shows or movies, but editing photos of people into memes or giving in depth examinations of funny stories from high school are creative ways of doing what you like. The important part is that you enjoy yourself and share something you like. Set up in a basement, get some takeout food if Cowan is really tiring you, and you’re set to have fun.
The list doesn’t end here, but these are easy ways to have fun, and, outside of cookie decorating, they’re cheap (and we all love that as college students). Just find an activity that makes you and your friends excited, and that will be enough.
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