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By Laura Hinkle
McConnell Scholar ('22)
- Avocados: You can use these to make avocado toast. Do this on the weekends when you would normally be at brunch with your friends.
- Coffee beans: You have enough time to make real coffee now. Stop using your Keurig and start using a French press.
- Yoga mat: This is purely for decoration. When your friends come over, they will be impressed you’ve been working out all quarantine. Don’t correct them.
- A big desk chair that rolls: I hate to break it to you, but if you try to do homework in bed, you’re going to fall asleep. This is your next best option.
- A Game of Thrones sword: This one is optional but recommended. Its purpose is for dance battles with your roommates, but it’s also very helpful to fight off intruders.
- A Game of Thrones apron: This speaks for itself. I recommend pairing it with the sword for maximum serotonin boost.
- Colorful wigs and cowboy hats from Party City: Put these on anytime you’re feeling sad. For a bonus, walk around campus with them on. You’re wearing a mask, no one will know who you are anyway.
- A framed picture of Robert Pattinson: This one makes no sense, but I promise it will bring you joy.
- A projector: This is for Harry Potter movie nights with your roommates. It is required that you have a HP marathon purely to appreciate Draco Malfoy. History is written by the victors and this is the ONLY reason Harry Potter is the protagonist.
- Candy corn: It’s officially spooky season, and there’s no better way to kick it off than by eating candy corn. If you don’t like candy corn, you have the taste buds of a child and quarantine is a great time to fix that.
Laura Hinkle, of Elizabethtown, Ky., is a member of the McConnell Scholar Class of 2022 at the University of Louisville. She studies political science, history and philosophy.