Maybe you’ve been whining about not learning a thing in so-and-so’s class, but now you have a three-page study guide. We get it.It’s one week until Reading Day, Sun Devils, which means we have only seven more days to try and make up for all of this semester’s procrastination. It’s been just over three months since this semester kicked into gear and those final deadlines, PowerPoint presentations, 10-pagers, holiday stress and annoying TV commercials are pushing the stress level over the edge. Therefore, in order to prevent a widespread epidemic of explosion — think Visioneers — a few campus or dorm-friendly activities can relieve the muddled mind and reboot your system before crashing head on into finals week. Here are a few more events to keep you peacefully procrastinating and to help you chill the finals out.
Stress-free Zone: The West Campus is hosting a Stress-free Zone between 2 and 5 p.m. Thursday in the Breezeway, where students can relax and even make their own stress balls for lasting relief. Sure, some of you may find any level of productivity a little stressful this time of year, but who can resist a product with a stress-free guaranteed payoff?
Devil Yell: From the creators of the ASU Undie Run, comes a less risqué winter-appropriate event. No, we’re not talking about a long john run (but someone should put that together, too). We’re talking about the first ever Devil Yell. If you’re on campus, any campus, at 10 p.m. on Reading Day, then let all your stress and anxiety and butterflies out in a loud one- to two-minute scream.
Free massages: Be it sore muscles from hunching over your computer, lugging all those heavy texts off to sell back to the ASU Bookstore or just from losing sleep and building up all that lactic acid in your muscles, snag a table and a free massage on the Tempe campus during Reading Day and have all your troubles rubbed away.
Finals breakfast: After giving stress the ol’ 10 o’clock lungful, saunter over to a complementary pancake breakfast at the University Center Building at the West Campus or one of the four dining halls on the Tempe campus. Eating may not be the best way to relieve stress, but it’ll help feed your exhausted or — depending on how you study — hung-over mind.
Sleep: As if we actually have to tell you this is important. But you need about seven to eight hours of sleep, and it’s proven that sleep helps memory and retention. Although sleep is something that many of us see as a luxury, particularly during Finals Week, go ahead and use Reading Day as a time to go to snooze, wake up, maybe study, then nap. Sleep may not be cumulative when it comes down to it, but ASU is giving you a day of sanctioned bed rest. Grab your Snuggie and noise-canceling headphones and get to those REM cycles.
