{"id":4828,"date":"2020-04-07T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:30:33","slug":"lindsey-five-ways-to-better-yourself-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/04\/07\/lindsey-five-ways-to-better-yourself-in-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey: Five Ways to Better Yourself in Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2020\/04\/room-indoors-human-person-thumbnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2020\/04\/room-indoors-human-person-thumbnail-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"room-indoors-human-person-thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2020\/04\/room-indoors-human-person-thumbnail-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2020\/04\/room-indoors-human-person-thumbnail.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the last two weeks, the majority of published content offers endless ways to keep busy during the quarantine. But, there\u2019s too much content. If you\u2019re indecisive like me, its easy to default to the go-to activity: Netflix binging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knowing BU COM kids, we like to be productive\u2026.at every waking hour. I\u2019ve narrowed down a shortlist of ways to be productive in quarantine:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Listen to a new podcast<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, I\u2019ve become a podcast lover, especially educational podcasts. While going for a walk, sitting outside\/inside, podcasts are great for letting time pass by quickly and with meaning. If you\u2019re looking for an inspirational podcast, try NPR\u2019s \u201cHow I Built This.\u201d Each episode features a famous company\u2019s start-up story (the Chipotle episode is great!).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Learn a new skill&#8230;online<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a lot of us, our workloads are not as harsh as usual. With extra time, you can learn new skills to make you a better candidate in the professional world. For example, Google offers a beginner\u2019s course in Google Analytics and Adobe Suite offers beginner\u2019s course to learn design. All for free!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Glam up: makeup YouTube tutorials<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not necessarily academic, but it is self-help. Do you beg your friend every Saturday night to do your eyeshadow? Yes. Do you know the purpose of each makeup brush? I definitely don\u2019t. Now\u2019s our time. With hundreds of makeup tutorials out there, we can easily master the perfect day-time, night-time, natural look and start next fall with the best looks on campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Master a new workout routine<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sitting all day is NOT good for your mental and physical health. Get your muscles moving with a little help from YouTube\u2019s collection of free workout classes and routines. My favorites are 305 Fitness, Pop Sugar Fitness, and MadFit. All of these videos are 30 minutes are less, and are easy to integrate into your daily routine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cook up a storm: new recipes<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m a horrible cook. Since I\u2019m not in my mini-kitchen in Boston for now, it\u2019s the perfect time to learn basic cooking skills and impress your family, so next year you\u2019re not stuck with microwavable ramen every night. Delish.com and BuzzFeed Tasty are great places to look for easy, no-time, yummy recipes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although we have more time on our hands than we\u2019ve ever had, we are still living through a global pandemic and it is stressful. It\u2019s important to not be too hard on yourself, and know it\u2019s okay to have a lazy day. This list is for the days you\u2019re feeling productive \ud83d\ude42 Stay safe and healthy!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two weeks, the majority of published content offers endless ways to keep busy during the quarantine. But, there\u2019s too much content. If you\u2019re indecisive like me, its easy to default to the go-to activity: Netflix binging.\u00a0 Knowing BU COM kids, we like to be productive\u2026.at every waking hour. I\u2019ve narrowed down a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/04\/07\/lindsey-five-ways-to-better-yourself-in-quarantine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lindsey: Five Ways to Better Yourself in Quarantine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44577],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}