If Dead Week hasn’t already killed you, then you’re likely on track for finals next week. I use the phrase “on track” rather loosely, as some of us seem to be riding a smooth-sailing Monorail, while others are clinging to the roof of a derailing steam train. If you more easily imagined your journey as the latter description, finals might be the end of the tunnel – an end closed by bricks and no hope for survival. However, just because it seems like there is no way to salvage your grade at this point does not mean you should sit around waiting for the crash to hit. Instead, hop on board the F train and head down the failroad with these 50 fun ways to fail your finals.

1. Go fly a kite
   
2. Explore a Bart stop you have never gotten off at before
3. Go to a concert
4. Learn to play a new instrument
5. Gather flower bouquets for all of your friends
6. Watch your favorite movie
7. See a new movie
8. Roller skate at the Berkeley Marina
9. Take a knitting class
10. See how long you can sleep
11. Find every hidden staircase in the Berkeley Hills
12. Have a Lord of the Rings Marathon
13. Start a new board on Pinterest
14. Memorize every plant at the Botanical Gardens
15. Redecorate your house/bedroom
16. Make your own Kombucha
17. Learn to windsurf
18. Read any religious text
19. Pick up a new language
20. Teach yourself how to write with your opposite hand
21. Call that certain someone
22. Swim at the Strawberry Canyon pool
23. Check out all of the local farmers markets/swap meets
24. Bike through Napa Valley
25. Take apart your computer
26. Reassemble your computer
27. Find a new park
28. Visit a friend at another school
29. Go Geocaching
30. Read through your notes in Pig Latin
31. Road trip down Highway 1
32. Make a story out of the etchings on your exam desk
33. Call a relative
34. Take a ceramics class
35. Partake in karaoke night
36. Hike a new trail
37. Look up sex offenders from your hometown
38. Complete your final exam using your non-dominant hand
39. Create your own blog
40. Watch “LOST” and try to understand it
41. Get to know people on Telegraph
42. Train for a marathon
43. Play Monopoly
44. Make birthday cards for all the birthdays you’ve missed this year
45. Tie-dye your sheets
46. Buy a pet
47. Make vegan brownies
48. Go to a concert
49. Watch every “Trapped in the Closet” episode
50. Write your own manifesto

So there you have it. If failure is inevitable, might as well make the best of it by doing one, two, or even all of these options. Happy Dead Week everyone!

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