Have you ever heard about the vacation syndrome? When you finish sweet vacation like honey, you may feel charged full by energy. But if you are so intoxicated from that rest, you will undergo difficulty returning to the reality. It is the same to students who have to go back to the school in March.

  Winter vacation is two and a half months. It was quite long. It was like a never-ending vacation, but the new semester has already started. Closely packed major schedules of the new semester and a lot of studies have to be done. But what is this feeling of a vacation till now? We couldn't realize the new semester is just around the corner, and we don't want to do anything. This is a 'Vacation Syndrome.' Are you a serious patient of this sickness, too?

A daily work during vacation of J

  Rise up in the morning at 10a.m. Feel hungry. Have a morning toast and fruit which is good for the skin. After breakfast, pass the time by watching every public entertainment programs on the broadcasting companies. Have lunch at 12p.m. After lunch, it is 12:30p.m. Watch TV. When tired of watching TV, surf the internet and monitor file sharing sites to download movies to watch. Get more movies and watch, or take a nap when tired of watching movies. At 6p.m., when bored, watch the clock. It's time to have dinner. Eat dinner. After that, watch dramas as usual until 10p.m. Continue to watch TV or play on the computer, and sometimes study English. After midnight, become sleepy. Fall asleep while thinking to herself 'Another day done.'

  After living like this, new semester students have difficulty adapting to the university. One big reason of this is irregular life patterns during vacation. During the semester, they live a regular life, but during the vacation, they live an irregular and lazy life because there is nothing to control them. To sleep and get up late or go to bed and get up at anytime makes you hard to adapt to a busy life during the new semester.

The Dankook Herald researched the times when students got up and went to bed.

  48% of the students said they usually woke up between 9a.m. to 11a.m. 40% of the students went to bed between 12a.m. to 2a.m. or between 2a.m. to 4a.m. For those 76% of the students, it will be hard to adapt to the changed daily life pattern because the class times fall in their usual rising hours during semester. However, that is not the only problem they have. The other problem is that there is no regular job to keep them busy. Most students normally watch TV or surf the internet at home, or they hang out with their friends.

They do not know how to manage time. They have no anxiety about the ignorance of what they have to do or need to do. They loaf around their vacation time. One of interviewees said, "I am sick and tired of doing nothing. So I want the new semester to start."

  How about your vacation life? Check how you did.

1. Did you eat irregularly?

2. Did you complete anything you planned to do before the vacation?

3. Did you exercise regularly during vacation?

4. Did you do your work with a strong will?

5. Have you stayed awake till dawn to watch TV or play a computer game?

6. Was your time awake less than sleeping time?

7. Have you had days where you did not go outside?

8. Have you had a thought that you were a 'Hiki Komori?'

9. Do you know what date it is today?

10. Could you believe that it was the starting of new semester?

  There is a saying, "Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone." Now you noticed that you can't get what you want around your comfort zone, like the bed, the table and the TV. Don't waste your time anymore like during your vacation. How could you adapt yourself to life after beginning the new semester? Do you think that you would be better with taking vitamins and doing regular exercises as in the magazines? Mental attitude is a more important thing. So have the will to use your energy on everything you do. Your desire to do something will take away your lethargy and indolence.

  Take your schedule and how about scheduling your new semester's plan right now? This semester, get out of the comfort zone and get everything you want.