How-To Cope During COVID-19: Katie Style

Posted April 8, 2020 by Katie Carlson

• Learn how to propagate plants from your favorite Student Snippets blogger: me! 
• Host virtual coffee hours//dance parties with your friends.
• Gather mailing addresses for everyone you know.
• Doodle. 
• Send said doodles to your friends (pineap-PALS) via mail with the Gwen Ifill stamps you’ve purchased from USPS. 
• Suddenly become someone who enthusiastically participates in chain Facebook//Instagram challenges. 
• Keep your nails looking IMMACULATE even though only your roommate will see them. 
• Don’t forget to show your plants//pets//kids on Zoom meetings. We could all use the break! 
• Make LOTS of buttermilk pancakes. Use chocolate chips. (This is essential.) 
• Hate-watch Love Is Blind. 
• Love-watch Full House.
• Host your own version of chopped with pantry items! 
• Binge watch all of Tiger King. 
• Videochat your parents about Tiger King theories. 
• Play endless games of Yahtzee! (Mail your girlfriend some dice so she can play along!) 
• Jazzercise. 
• Do a chemical foot peel. 
• Feel nothing but regret (and very soft skin). 
• Break out the watercolors you bought for a costume design class in college. 
• Force your roommate to craft with you!  
• Take advantage of the online resources of your local library!
• Develop a caffeine addiction. 
• Online (window) shop like your life depends on it. Occasionally treat yourself. 
• Reupholster furniture. (Just me?) 
• Learn how to bake bread! 
• Try out drag makeup????? Live blog it. 
• Facemasks. Enough said. 
• Order a “beginner’s embroidery kit” from the interwebs! 
• Make a stress ball from a balloon and some flour//rice. Tutorial here. 
• Try not to download TikTok. 
• Download TikTok. 
• Realize you’re too old for TikTok. 
• Stay up until 3 a.m. on TikTok. 
• Teach your grandma//other relatives how to video chat. Use filters. 
• Terrorize family and friends with endless streams of bitmojis. 
• Really UP those Spotify “hours listened” statistics. ttend drag shows hosted via instagram. 
• Make virtual mix-tapes for your friends. 
• Don’t attach your self-worth to productivity (ever, but especially during this especially wild time).