Why You Should Sometimes Stay In for the Weekend

By Meredith McDevitt on March 7, 2017

As college students, we look forward to the weekends, from our Friday night outings to our Sunday morning regret homework days. We tackle Monday’s thinking we only have five days until the weekend and dread the Sunday night last-minute study sessions.

From planning our outfits, pre-games, and parties, we never stop — our social weekends get us through hard academic weeks: work hard to play hard. However, we tend to forget the importance of mental health and taking a break sometimes over crazy college weekends.

The beauty of old movies and making homemade popcorn seems to be lost in today’s college world. Sitting on the couch with roommates and watching HGTV until the sun goes down is just as important as going out to parties on Friday nights. Why is HGTV and roommate movie time so important you may ask yourself?

As a college student, mental health awareness is the last of one’s worries in life. Between crunching numbers towards rent, food, and textbooks, while writing papers and studying for exams, mental health seems to be at the bottom of the pyramid. Emotional well-being can be negatively affected by the stress of the everyday college lifestyle. Not enough sleep, rarely a decent home-cooked meal, and all night library study sessions all create a negative well-being outlook for students.

Sitting down and taking a weekend to watch a Harry Potter movie, or an episode of your favorite childhood show shapes more positive well-being in students. Inviting your neighbors over and cooking breakfast for dinner, and then binge-watching a Netflix show allows for laughter, inside jokes, and memories that’ll last just as long as a party or social outing. Sometimes as students we need to step outside of the social scene, but rather not step out and instead stay in and enjoy one another’s company.

College is portrayed as only studying and socializing, while routinized the same each day and weekend. We think going out with our friends is the only thing that matters — our cutest outfits making for the cutest social media post to prove we went out — except the relaxed moments and shared memories in our pajamas are just as important throughout college.

Whether you go out and enjoy nightlife or not, staying in and taking care of your own well-being and mental health is just as important and fun as socializing at a party. Pick up the remote, put on your favorite pair of pajamas, and stay in for a weekend!

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