1. A tip from my mom, Diane: Make sure to bring home a can of Cougar Gold cheese for the parents. This is great, because it’ll be a nice surprise for the ones who birthed you, and they might make yummy food with it.

2. Take home all that laundry. We know that’s what you all do, I see guys walking to their friends’ cars with bags and bags of dirty laundry. I don’t envy your mom or your fellow passengers on that one. Nasty, man, just nasty.

3. Make sure to bring home every textbook you have this semester, and tell yourself you’ll write all three of your 10 page papers during your week of freedom.

4. Once you haul your textbooks home, leave them in your trunk the entire break and forget to do that super easy discussion post for your humanities class. It’ll make you feel terrible about yourself, but is totally worth that extra episode of the Office you squeezed in at 3 a.m. Saturday.