1. Teach yourself a useful skill like HTML, JAVA, or Python
Free online instructional websites like codeacademy and w3schools are great.
2. Teach yourself how to cook
Reverse recipe look-up websites like gojee and supercook are imperative.
3. Change your Facebook settings to learn a new language
Remember when you thought changing your Facebook to Pirate was comedic gold?
4. Or read magazines online in another language
5. Explore Wikipedia Simple English
You can learn about complicated things in plain, jargon-free, regular, human English.
6. Wikiversity too
7. Go to a lecture without having to physically move
Academicearth.org has free lectures and course material from universities like MIT, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and Columbia.
8. Watch documentaries and TED talks on Netflix
Nonfics.com has suggestions for the best documentaries currently on Netflix and the best places to find documentaries online. PBS is also a great resource, as is thisTimeout ranking of the 50 best documentaries of all time.
9. If you’re a college student, look into discounts and free admissions deals that your school offers for museums/shows
10. Download an app that will restrict you from websites that you spend too much time on
11. Find books that you’ll actually want to read
12. Or catch up on the latest and greatest articles that are available on the web
Longreads collects magazine pieces and articles for you.
13. If you just can’t keep your brain focused for an extended period of time, catch up on some short stories
Free classics online at Classic Shorts and American shorts at Americanliterature.com. Resources for Gabriel García Márquez and Alice Munro shorts at Openculture.com and a list that includes George Saunders at Flavorwire.com.
14. Attempt to learn to do something artistic like draw or play the guitar
Drawspace.com and Justinguitar.com can help with that respectively.
15. Listen to podcasts while you commute, cook or wait in line
Try Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, How To Do Everything, The History of Our World, or Neil Degrasse Tyson’s StarTalk. Check out more podcast suggestions from CollegeInfoGeek.com
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