FIRST DAY OF ONLINE CLASSES - its zoom time baby ;) _ JustAli

The Art of Doing Nothing: A Day in the Life of a College Student

As I lay in bed, completely flat like holding onto my phone and my covers were up to here, I couldn't help but feel like this guy - someone who doesn't care about much of anything. He's just chillin', talking away, and not even bothering to pay attention to the conversation around him. It was kinda funny, actually. His lack of enthusiasm is a reflection of how most people spend their days, just going through the motions without any real purpose or drive.

I had three minutes, okay? Three whole minutes! I wish I could say that it was easy to do nothing for an extended period of time, but let's be real, it's hard when you're stuck in a lecture-based class. People always talk about how much more engaging online classes are, and I can see why - when everyone is on screen, it feels like they're just going through the motions too. But then there's Matthew McConaughey. Oh man, he came to my class! Seeing him on screen was like a dream come true for some people. And let me tell you, he's as charismatic in person as he is on screen. We asked questions about his films, and it was clear that he loves what he does.

We also had a Q&A session with Matthew McConaughey's team, and I was surprised by how much they shared about their experience working with him. He's just a really nice guy who says what he means. When he came to my class, I was a bit nervous, but he put everyone at ease right away. And yes, we did sign an NDA, so I won't be sharing any juicy details about the conversation we had.

After Matthew McConaughey left, I felt a sense of relief wash over me. It was nice to have some human interaction after being stuck in class all day. But then reality set in - I still had a lot to do before my next class, and I couldn't just sit around doing nothing all day. So, I got up, changed into a new outfit (my third of the day!), and started getting ready for the rest of my online classes.

My day wasn't exactly filled with productivity, but it was okay. I spent some time recording a YouTube video about monochromatic outfits, which turned out to be more fun than I expected. And then, I indulged in a little bit of bullet journaling - because what's better than talking about your thoughts and feelings on paper? It was my way of processing the world around me, especially during this quarantine period.

As I sat in front of my computer, reflecting on my day, I realized that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, there were some moments where I felt like I was wasting time, but overall, it was just a chill day at home. And who knows? Maybe one day, I'll even get to film a full-on vlog about my life as a college student.

Later that evening, I decided to take a walk and FaceTime my boyfriend - because sometimes, all you need is some human interaction to brighten up your day. It was beautiful outside, and we chatted about everything from our favorite TV shows to our plans for the future. It was nice to have someone to talk to who truly gets me.

As I lay in bed again, feeling grateful for this little slice of time, I realized that sometimes it's okay to do nothing. In fact, it might be necessary. And so, I'll just roll with it - maybe I'll write a blog post about my experience today, or perhaps I'll just take another nap. After all, life is short, and doing nothing can be kind of nice.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello I literally just a mess I'm really ashamed that I looked in the mirror like five minutes ago and it's like you know I'll you look cute you should go from the intro of your video and now I'm looking in the viewfinder and I look like a crazy person that is what I don't even know how many weeks of quarantine has done to me but regardless I'm not gonna go shame to make myself look better so you're stuck with this anyway tomorrow is my first day of online classes which I don't know how to feel about it I'm awfully excited for that now I started for that I don't know this whole times of the world are strange and I do want to be able to look back on these times and you know like what was going through my head while these changes were like and kind of chronicle my experience yeah this wouldn't make this little vlog so we can all relate as Zoomers together quick rundown of how my classes work so my first class is don't history and previously I have that on Tuesdays and Thursdays in person but my professor decided to just do pre-recorded lectures that we can watch anytime during the week and so today I'm going to try and get that all the way and watch his online lecture that he posted today which would be very weird because I literally will never communicate with anyone in that class again but that's fine and then second class I've class called script screen which is another film class we'd only had that class on Wednesdays in person for three hours and we're still gonna have it on Wednesdays for three hours we're doing an online live zoom lecture so I'm very intrigued to see how that goes also just for extra funds Matthew McConaughey is being a guest speaker in our zoom class tomorrow so he's gonna zoom us stay tuned for that third class influencer marking normally we have that class on Wednesday evenings for three hours in person and now my professor pre-recorded the lectures so I need to watch that and then tomorrow at our normal class time we're gonna do a live zoom lecture she's not gonna lecture though it's just gonna be like a time for questions and discussions uh okay I'm gonna eat some pretzels procrastinate for like 20 more minutes and I August okay I have the first lecture pulled up that I'm gonna watch it's weird I'm like probably the lecture I forgot I have to do stuff like taking notes it's like that so like yes yes take minutes it's a lecture but like like it just like doesn't feel like class okay I just finished watching my first lecture I don't know it was kind of weird in that class so you always have like group work and guest speakers and stuff like that so it's weird like probably not gonna be able to do those things and I also just like have a way a harder time paying attention just like watching it online especially pre-recorded so I'm curious to see how it is tomorrow when we have a live zoom class to see if it's easier to pay attention it's funny like our parents are like boomers but now we're Zoomers like what our kids make fun of us and be like what Zoomers you know like okay it's a bad joke all right good night good morning it's my class starts in an hour this is where I would normally get up if my classrooms in person I think in the future I'm probably just gonna roll out of bed like ten minutes before class since its online but today we do have Matthew McConaughey coming as a guest speaker so I kind of wanted to look nice even though he's just gonna see me on a little tiny zoom screen okay I'm gonna get ready uh hello sorry I am running very late actually don't even time I need to get my computer sorry class starts in like plus a single minute and I'm still in my pajamas on my computer not on turn laundering onto wrong day okay I feel like it's impossible to be late when you're doing online classes because you can just ruler your computer from wherever you're at but I also feel like I'm gonna be so late so many times because it's just so easy to lose track of time because I don't actually have to like be there physically and I was just taking my sweet time Washington Tana mojo video doing my makeup and now class is about to turn on turn on turn on oh my gosh I'm like literally so white I blend in with the background what's happening okay where do I even got it jeepers but I'm not supposed to show at the McConaughey coming we sound like an NDA or whatever and so I'm just gonna show like my reaction to you on the class and then talk about it afterwards supposed to turn on my camera but I don't know what I'm gonna look like so I'm like nervous - also I hate that I know I muted but I feel like people can hear me into stressing me out okay I'm gonna go hello my class is three hours long sooner when we take a cat ten-minute break every hour so I want a break right now I moved to set up my desk because sitting on the floor was kind of annoying but we just had an hour of lecture and then Matthew McConaughey's gonna come on and do a Q&A but I wrote like some notes throughout the class address with my thoughts on how it is being online like what I like or dislike about it and so I have time right now I'm just gonna share some of those thoughts and then go back to class oh hey this is only I didn't even write down but I just sawed up right now I feel like I'm gonna have so much more time for YouTube which is honestly really nice like right now like I could not be filming this if I was in class I would just be like on a break in class like sitting on my phone for 10 minutes having to walk to class doesn't take that much time but it really does like add up anyway to my list one thing I don't like about zoom is we you can't like preview what your video is gonna look like of yourself before you just turn it on so I turned on the video and class started and you can see my ring light in the background and I just looked at like weird immediately turned off my camera its okay sorry so buddy started talking and our break until I was like wait don't you pay attention to this but they're just talking about like their own question to the professor so I think a mutant my twist oh wait ring when I was in the background and then I moved my ring light out of the way and I cut my camera back on and my roommate was just still on the other side of the frame but it was still in the shot so then I'd her make him off again they move really far away and it was fine it's also so funny to see people like in their room or wherever they're at I feel like it says so much about them I don't know I just think it's so funny and then just also to see like some people were like fully dressed it was nice and providing is really good and then there was one guy like laying in bed like completely flat like holding like his phone and his covers were like up to here and he was like talking the whole time of our discussion and it was just so funny like he did not care it just like reflect everyone's personality how much time do I have okay three minutes it's just like I don't know I think it's way easier till they can pay attention and have like a personal connection obviously in a physical classroom but it really isn't that different for like lecture based classes I feel like when we have Matthew McConaughey come on in a second it will be a big difference especially because he's like a celebrity like seeing them on a screen would you do that all the time you see them in a movie you see the money YouTube video in an interview so it's like really exciting to see them like in person so that's kind of sad that you'll still get to talk to him and have him like coming to our class but I think that won't be nowhere near the same as in person it looks like people are asking questions and you did my computer eat I don't know if that's bad so I'm gonna go back to class oh okay my class is done I know it looks like no time has passed we had Matthew McConaughey come on which is very cool it would have been cool it was still cool over zoom we knocked like asking questions about his films and yeah what a nice dude yes like a way with words like he's so charismatic and I feel like you words everything so well like I wish I could do that but yeah we did sign the NDA we're not supposed to like talk about what was said in class with when he came in so I'm not really gonna share much of like anything that he discussed in particular but it was a good class I have like a two-hour gap until my next class and no like I would just like pocket lunch and stay on campus because there's not a lot of time appoint I'm walking all the way home just for like that amount of gap but I can like cook lunch now like get a good lunch I can get a lot more stuff done this it's an actually amount of room with all the stuff I need okay I'm gonna go make lunch hello I just had lunch and then since then I've done literally nothing for an hour which is bad I can't believe I just feeling like a whole rant about how I was gonna get more done now that we've online class today so much time and what was that hello and then I did nothing I also changed clothes not much of an improvement I just switched t-shirts baby steps I have like 30 minutes before my next class which is not very much time but I'm doing a YouTube view this weekend so I'm going to try and record a little bit for that video is 30 minutes hello I am in the third outfit of this video I just filmed a monochromatic outfits video and so that's why I'm wearing it another outfit but I just had my second online class it's weird like the whole time we were there I'm like oh I can't wait till the class of when I can do do whatever I want for the day and then soon as class is over I was like oh it's over like that was like my last like big human contact I didn't appreciate how it was like nice to talk with people that I like haven't talked to in a while and aren't just the people in my apartment I'm probably not going to do much else today besides a little bit of homework for my online classes and then do some bullet journaling I've seen a lot of all like chronicling correct chronicling yes they're like time in this weird world of madness and so I want to do like a little brain dump section in my full of journal where I just kind of talk each day like my thoughts I'm quarantine and what's going on in the world I live in everything let me know if you guys liked this kind of video it's a lot more chill like vlog style video in the next video I'm gonna have out which is actually what I partially filmed today is my monochromatic Calvin's video I'm so I'm gonna do like big videos like that every week but since I have a lot of extra time I kinda would love to do like a vlog and a big video like once a week so let me know if you like these little vlogs that you would want to see in between my big videos if that makes sense that's all for this video for now I will just roll the rest of my evening I spent the rest of my evening bullet journaling and creating my April spread which I think turned out really cute and then I went for a walk and at FaceTime my boyfriend's it was a beautiful day outsidehello I literally just a mess I'm really ashamed that I looked in the mirror like five minutes ago and it's like you know I'll you look cute you should go from the intro of your video and now I'm looking in the viewfinder and I look like a crazy person that is what I don't even know how many weeks of quarantine has done to me but regardless I'm not gonna go shame to make myself look better so you're stuck with this anyway tomorrow is my first day of online classes which I don't know how to feel about it I'm awfully excited for that now I started for that I don't know this whole times of the world are strange and I do want to be able to look back on these times and you know like what was going through my head while these changes were like and kind of chronicle my experience yeah this wouldn't make this little vlog so we can all relate as Zoomers together quick rundown of how my classes work so my first class is don't history and previously I have that on Tuesdays and Thursdays in person but my professor decided to just do pre-recorded lectures that we can watch anytime during the week and so today I'm going to try and get that all the way and watch his online lecture that he posted today which would be very weird because I literally will never communicate with anyone in that class again but that's fine and then second class I've class called script screen which is another film class we'd only had that class on Wednesdays in person for three hours and we're still gonna have it on Wednesdays for three hours we're doing an online live zoom lecture so I'm very intrigued to see how that goes also just for extra funds Matthew McConaughey is being a guest speaker in our zoom class tomorrow so he's gonna zoom us stay tuned for that third class influencer marking normally we have that class on Wednesday evenings for three hours in person and now my professor pre-recorded the lectures so I need to watch that and then tomorrow at our normal class time we're gonna do a live zoom lecture she's not gonna lecture though it's just gonna be like a time for questions and discussions uh okay I'm gonna eat some pretzels procrastinate for like 20 more minutes and I August okay I have the first lecture pulled up that I'm gonna watch it's weird I'm like probably the lecture I forgot I have to do stuff like taking notes it's like that so like yes yes take minutes it's a lecture but like like it just like doesn't feel like class okay I just finished watching my first lecture I don't know it was kind of weird in that class so you always have like group work and guest speakers and stuff like that so it's weird like probably not gonna be able to do those things and I also just like have a way a harder time paying attention just like watching it online especially pre-recorded so I'm curious to see how it is tomorrow when we have a live zoom class to see if it's easier to pay attention it's funny like our parents are like boomers but now we're Zoomers like what our kids make fun of us and be like what Zoomers you know like okay it's a bad joke all right good night good morning it's my class starts in an hour this is where I would normally get up if my classrooms in person I think in the future I'm probably just gonna roll out of bed like ten minutes before class since its online but today we do have Matthew McConaughey coming as a guest speaker so I kind of wanted to look nice even though he's just gonna see me on a little tiny zoom screen okay I'm gonna get ready uh hello sorry I am running very late actually don't even time I need to get my computer sorry class starts in like plus a single minute and I'm still in my pajamas on my computer not on turn laundering onto wrong day okay I feel like it's impossible to be late when you're doing online classes because you can just ruler your computer from wherever you're at but I also feel like I'm gonna be so late so many times because it's just so easy to lose track of time because I don't actually have to like be there physically and I was just taking my sweet time Washington Tana mojo video doing my makeup and now class is about to turn on turn on turn on oh my gosh I'm like literally so white I blend in with the background what's happening okay where do I even got it jeepers but I'm not supposed to show at the McConaughey coming we sound like an NDA or whatever and so I'm just gonna show like my reaction to you on the class and then talk about it afterwards supposed to turn on my camera but I don't know what I'm gonna look like so I'm like nervous - also I hate that I know I muted but I feel like people can hear me into stressing me out okay I'm gonna go hello my class is three hours long sooner when we take a cat ten-minute break every hour so I want a break right now I moved to set up my desk because sitting on the floor was kind of annoying but we just had an hour of lecture and then Matthew McConaughey's gonna come on and do a Q&A but I wrote like some notes throughout the class address with my thoughts on how it is being online like what I like or dislike about it and so I have time right now I'm just gonna share some of those thoughts and then go back to class oh hey this is only I didn't even write down but I just sawed up right now I feel like I'm gonna have so much more time for YouTube which is honestly really nice like right now like I could not be filming this if I was in class I would just be like on a break in class like sitting on my phone for 10 minutes having to walk to class doesn't take that much time but it really does like add up anyway to my list one thing I don't like about zoom is we you can't like preview what your video is gonna look like of yourself before you just turn it on so I turned on the video and class started and you can see my ring light in the background and I just looked at like weird immediately turned off my camera its okay sorry so buddy started talking and our break until I was like wait don't you pay attention to this but they're just talking about like their own question to the professor so I think a mutant my twist oh wait ring when I was in the background and then I moved my ring light out of the way and I cut my camera back on and my roommate was just still on the other side of the frame but it was still in the shot so then I'd her make him off again they move really far away and it was fine it's also so funny to see people like in their room or wherever they're at I feel like it says so much about them I don't know I just think it's so funny and then just also to see like some people were like fully dressed it was nice and providing is really good and then there was one guy like laying in bed like completely flat like holding like his phone and his covers were like up to here and he was like talking the whole time of our discussion and it was just so funny like he did not care it just like reflect everyone's personality how much time do I have okay three minutes it's just like I don't know I think it's way easier till they can pay attention and have like a personal connection obviously in a physical classroom but it really isn't that different for like lecture based classes I feel like when we have Matthew McConaughey come on in a second it will be a big difference especially because he's like a celebrity like seeing them on a screen would you do that all the time you see them in a movie you see the money YouTube video in an interview so it's like really exciting to see them like in person so that's kind of sad that you'll still get to talk to him and have him like coming to our class but I think that won't be nowhere near the same as in person it looks like people are asking questions and you did my computer eat I don't know if that's bad so I'm gonna go back to class oh okay my class is done I know it looks like no time has passed we had Matthew McConaughey come on which is very cool it would have been cool it was still cool over zoom we knocked like asking questions about his films and yeah what a nice dude yes like a way with words like he's so charismatic and I feel like you words everything so well like I wish I could do that but yeah we did sign the NDA we're not supposed to like talk about what was said in class with when he came in so I'm not really gonna share much of like anything that he discussed in particular but it was a good class I have like a two-hour gap until my next class and no like I would just like pocket lunch and stay on campus because there's not a lot of time appoint I'm walking all the way home just for like that amount of gap but I can like cook lunch now like get a good lunch I can get a lot more stuff done this it's an actually amount of room with all the stuff I need okay I'm gonna go make lunch hello I just had lunch and then since then I've done literally nothing for an hour which is bad I can't believe I just feeling like a whole rant about how I was gonna get more done now that we've online class today so much time and what was that hello and then I did nothing I also changed clothes not much of an improvement I just switched t-shirts baby steps I have like 30 minutes before my next class which is not very much time but I'm doing a YouTube view this weekend so I'm going to try and record a little bit for that video is 30 minutes hello I am in the third outfit of this video I just filmed a monochromatic outfits video and so that's why I'm wearing it another outfit but I just had my second online class it's weird like the whole time we were there I'm like oh I can't wait till the class of when I can do do whatever I want for the day and then soon as class is over I was like oh it's over like that was like my last like big human contact I didn't appreciate how it was like nice to talk with people that I like haven't talked to in a while and aren't just the people in my apartment I'm probably not going to do much else today besides a little bit of homework for my online classes and then do some bullet journaling I've seen a lot of all like chronicling correct chronicling yes they're like time in this weird world of madness and so I want to do like a little brain dump section in my full of journal where I just kind of talk each day like my thoughts I'm quarantine and what's going on in the world I live in everything let me know if you guys liked this kind of video it's a lot more chill like vlog style video in the next video I'm gonna have out which is actually what I partially filmed today is my monochromatic Calvin's video I'm so I'm gonna do like big videos like that every week but since I have a lot of extra time I kinda would love to do like a vlog and a big video like once a week so let me know if you like these little vlogs that you would want to see in between my big videos if that makes sense that's all for this video for now I will just roll the rest of my evening I spent the rest of my evening bullet journaling and creating my April spread which I think turned out really cute and then I went for a walk and at FaceTime my boyfriend's it was a beautiful day outside\n"