I know some people that love being in a relationship; as soon as one ends, they’ve already found someone new to go out with. I get that dating is a lot of fun, but I’m here to tell you don’t need a significant other to have the best high school experience ever! In fact, here are 50 things you can do instead of prowling for a new bae:

1. Write poetry
2. Train for a marathon
3. Make your family take a personality test and figure out how to relate to them better. Take the personality test here (https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test).
4. Do a day road trip with your friends
5. Bring a sketchbook to an art museum and draw your favorite pieces
6. Invest in your younger siblings by taking them to a movie, getting ice cream, or playing a video game together
7. Get a job
8. Teach children’s catechesis
9. Start a blog
10. Start a vlog
11. Go to a skatepark/learn to skateboard
12. Find a coffee shop you can make YOUR coffee shop
13. Do your homework??
14. Start collecting something
15. Make galaxy slime. Find out how here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdiDnyai2O0).
16. Have a slumber party and build a fort
17. Find a book written by your favorite saint
18. Re-read the entire Harry Potter series
19. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
20. Go to a concert
21. Write a song
22. Do a cover of one of your favorite songs and upload it on YouTube
23. Go thrift shopping
24. Bake something for your parish priest
25. Cook a three-course dinner for your family
26. Pray a weekly holy hour
27. Go on a discernment retreat with your diocese or contact a religious order. Learn more about discerning a religious vocation here (https://lifeteen.com/blog/category/life/future-vocation/discernment/).
28. Learn how to screenprint your own t-shirts
29. Go on a photography adventure and take photos of your city
30. Call someone you haven’t talked to in a long time
31. Start handwriting letters to your friends
32. Go to a soccer game at a local high school or college and cheer loudly for a random player
33. Assistant coach a children’s sports team
34. Get into a workout routine
35. Go to a drive-in movie theater with your friends
36. Go to a waterpark
37. Start a podcast about your favorite hobby. Here’s some tips for how to start podcasting (https://www.thepodcasthost.com/planning/how-to-start-a-podcast/).
38. Visit a nursing home and make a new friend
39. CreateFilm a short-film with your friends
40. Plant a vegetable garden
41. Help at an animal shelter
42. Write a book
43. Hike a mountain
44. Build a sandcastle and then destroy it. Film it in reverse and put it on your Instagram story.
45. Go get slushies at the gas station
46. Write a letter to Pope Francis. Find out how to contact the pope here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWt11nHzcI).
47. Get involved in local politics
48. Try wood-burning. Find out how to here (http://www.wikihow.com/Woodburn).
49. Learn to play the harmonica
50. Tie-dye