{"id":7830,"date":"2026-07-07T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:22:21","slug":"happy-mid-year-break-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2026\/07\/07\/happy-mid-year-break-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mid Year Break Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>If you are fortunate enough to get some time off this mid-year break, how do you think you&#8217;ll use it?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick message, from the Team at BetterU, wishing all students a happy mid-year break.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious how you will all use the time.<\/p>\n<p>When I get a break from work, the most likely things to happen are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I spend at least a day on the couch, bingeing TV shows and snacks. It might stretch to 3 days.<\/li>\n<li>Then I get a little bit antsy and feel I should be doing something, so I get out in the garden.<\/li>\n<li>Then I am likely to end up in a garden shop buying new plants.<\/li>\n<li>Then I get sick of the outdoors and decide to bring an old computer sitting in the corner back to life.<\/li>\n<li>Then I start buying computer parts on Amazon.<\/li>\n<li>Then I end up in a long chat with AI about financial planning.<\/li>\n<li>Then I decide for some reason to make a cake.<\/li>\n<li>Then I eat the whole cake.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that I read it back, I don&#8217;t suggest using this as a template for your break.<\/p>\n<p>But however you do use your time, we look forward to welcoming you back in late July.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t get a break, because of work or study intensives or you are doing a PhD (or another reason), I hope you do at least get a bit of a change of scenery. Even just a little rejigging of the schedule and some novelty can provide a small motivational boost.<\/p>\n<p>If you are feeling brave, feel free to put how you&#8217;ll spend your break in the comments below (use your Flinders login). Otherwise, see you soon \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7831\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/07\/triangle-of-leisure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/07\/triangle-of-leisure.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/07\/triangle-of-leisure-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/07\/triangle-of-leisure-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/07\/triangle-of-leisure-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are fortunate enough to get some time off this mid-year break, how do you think you&#8217;ll use it? &nbsp; Just a quick message, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":7832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[22270,22268,22014,15330,12539,21855,3854,5388,22271,14832,22267,103,3448,8369,18872,19063,15024,22269,12811,22119],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-gareth-pontifications","tag-activity-ideas","tag-downtime","tag-flinders-wellbeing","tag-healthy-habits","tag-hobbies","tag-leisure-activities","tag-mental-fitness","tag-mental-health","tag-personal-wellbeing","tag-positive-psychology","tag-recreation","tag-relaxation","tag-self-care","tag-stress-management","tag-student-life","tag-student-wellbeing","tag-study-life-balance","tag-things-to-do","tag-wellbeing-activities","tag-wellbeing-ideas"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}