Mistakes You Make During The Summer Vacation

Before graduating from university, our life is divided into two parts:

• A very long semester that does not end with studying, exams and lectures.
• A short one that ends in the blink of an eye and we never feel it is the summer vacation.

Gradually, exams began to expand and eat away at the vacation, and the university became three semesters, including a summer semester, and the vacation was no longer enough for the student to understand that he had finished the exams disaster and became free for a short period, so he quickly went without realising that it had already begun.

At a young age, the parents take over the task of planning the summer vacation and what we have to do, and they register on our behalf a lot of courses, activities and clubs to fill the spare time. Later, when we grow up, this responsibility turns to us and we have to plan our favourite activities, our favourite hobbies, and what we want to do, and it becomes our responsibility to take advantage of This holiday is the best use and we do not let it pass without getting benefits and achievements from it. It is a holiday, but it is not a holiday. It is a great opportunity for many accomplishments and works, developing skills and practising hobbies.

The problem lies in the fact that we are not good at planning this holiday, so it comes and goes as we were without any change, development or improvement, and we return to the study without any progress that can benefit us in our academic and practical lives and even public life, the reason is due to a group of catastrophic mistakes that we are not aware of at the same time, but we find it later when regret is useless.

1- Too much sleep and an unorganised lifestyle

During the exam period, we suffer from lack of sleep, and we look forward to the holiday so that we can stay up as we want and sleep until noon, and we find that our system has turned upside down and night has turned into day and day into night, and we are no longer able to control our lives as it should, and we are no longer able to Doing anything other than staying up late on the phone, social media, and the internet, and sleeping during the day until we fall asleep.

2- Abandon books for good

In a painful scene I always see after the end of the school year, the books are torn and thrown in the streets, as if the end of the study allows the students to insult the books in this way. It is related to it, and the truth is that school and university books do nothing more than the testimony they give you, but the real knowledge comes from books, reading and life experience together.

3- The empty space

Vacation does not mean permanent sleep and complete waste of time. Exams end and vacation spends sleeping and watching TV and conversations on the Internet. Going out with friends for picnics and then it ends without any benefit you get from it, or an achievement that adds to your life. It does not mean long preoccupations and endless plans... Balance is What you should learn to do during vacation.

4- Lots of plans and little execution

Often the one who makes a lot of plans for the summer vacation and dozens of ideas to implement, and then does not do any of them is the same one who puts many programs to study in which there is a lot of pressure in time and quantity, and then does not stick to this program and finds himself changing it dozens of times and then nothing comes out of it. He does not progress in his lessons one iota, and he reaches the exam without finishing his subjects.

Know your capabilities and the time available to you and allocate a part of it to what you want to do, and plan according to your ability, time and what you love. The holiday is an opportunity to do what you love from the work and not to pressure yourself again and live in constant tension.

5- Randomness in planning

Volunteering, computer and language courses, simple work, reading, outings, affiliation to every place you find an opportunity, regardless of its importance to you or how useful it is to you… What after all this?

Many random ways and many experiences that may be conflicting and have different benefits and areas in which you live, and then you find yourself lost, tired, unable to know what you like and what you want...

Before you delve into any field, think about the thing that will be presented to you, and before you learn anything and spend your time and money on it, know the result that you will get from it, and whether it will serve your major goals and if it will bring you practical, professional, social or even financial benefit... You did not carry any benefit from these that you mentioned, do not use them, and look for others to fill your time and benefit from it.