vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained
- go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand
- binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)
- find free books on project gutenberg
- download some western classics for free
- borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox
- start a commonplace book
- take a khan academy course
- browse MIT’s free online course materials
- teach yourself to code
- go on a google scholar essay dive
- try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing
- research the history of the place you where you live
- tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language
- search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points
- print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes
- improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises
- learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones
- start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week
- clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital
- check out online museums
- fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed
hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x
