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- by Charlotte King
- In Student Life
Posted Feb. 11, 2015
5 Things Single Students Should Do on Valentines
Congratulations! You’ve successfully realised that your student years are the best time to be single, that they are a time when you are your most free and beautiful and that tying yourself down to one person during this time would be a foolish decision you’d really regret in twenty years time when you’re stuck in a loveless marriage with two kids, one mortgage and no waist. However, some people have not got the wisdom you have and inexplicably have dates on Valentine’s Day. Celebrate the fact that you are not one of them with our guide to five fun activities to do this February 14th. (If you have made the foolish mistake of having a partner for Valentine’s Day, check out our cheap and cute ideas for them here .)
Hate-watch the latest rom-coms With Valentine’s Day seeing couples trying to spice up their dwindling love lives by going to watch terrible cheesy films together, wouldn’t it be terrible if their evenings were ruined by groups of single, tipsy postgrads laughing at all the bad dialogue and awkward sex scenes? Make this a reality by getting your best and most incorrigible friends together and terrorising romantic cinema dates forever. You might never be allowed back into the cinema, but it will definitely be worth it.
Tragic Love Stories Movie Marathon If you'd rather not spend the evening in a room filled with couples, why not get your group together to laugh at films where romances end terribly? Get some pizzas in and cheer as Rose drops Jack into the water despite clearly being on a raft big enough for two at the end of ‘Titanic’, and end with a rousing karaoke rendition of ‘My Heart Will Go On’. Or, watch one of our ’ 10 Films to See Before You Leave University ’.
Try Speed Hating As anyone who’s ever tried to make friends in uni knows, nothing brings two people closer together more quickly than mutual hatred of another person or thing. Speed hating takes this approach and turns it into an evening of insulting strangers or bonding over mutual dislikes. Even if you don’t find the love (hate?) of your life, it’s a major chance to vent. Speed hating is available in a number of UK cities, but if there’s not one nearby why not try it with your friends as equally frustrated about ‘overpriced chocolate and flowers day’ as you are.
Embrace Your Inner ‘Parks and Rec’ Character You should already be watching it, but if you’re not the residents of Pawnee have two great anti-Valentine’s Day to try. Either celebrate ‘Galentine’s Day’ in which you and your best girl/guy friends have brunch, exchange gifts and generally bask in each other’s awesomeness, or try a ‘Treat Yo’Self’ day, in which you can realise that those who think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop.
Study! If you want to ignore the day all together, why not take an intensive study day? The library will be fairly empty, and those annoying couples who do no work and giggle constantly will be blissfully absent. Plus, if you’re an internet dating user, you just know that Tinder/Grindr will be full of lonely and bored fellow students. As long as you get some work done too, that is…
Tragic Love Stories Movie Marathon If you'd rather not spend the evening in a room filled with couples, why not get your group together to laugh at films where romances end terribly? Get some pizzas in and cheer as Rose drops Jack into the water despite clearly being on a raft big enough for two at the end of ‘Titanic’, and end with a rousing karaoke rendition of ‘My Heart Will Go On’. Or, watch one of our ’ 10 Films to See Before You Leave University ’.
Try Speed Hating As anyone who’s ever tried to make friends in uni knows, nothing brings two people closer together more quickly than mutual hatred of another person or thing. Speed hating takes this approach and turns it into an evening of insulting strangers or bonding over mutual dislikes. Even if you don’t find the love (hate?) of your life, it’s a major chance to vent. Speed hating is available in a number of UK cities, but if there’s not one nearby why not try it with your friends as equally frustrated about ‘overpriced chocolate and flowers day’ as you are.
Embrace Your Inner ‘Parks and Rec’ Character You should already be watching it, but if you’re not the residents of Pawnee have two great anti-Valentine’s Day to try. Either celebrate ‘Galentine’s Day’ in which you and your best girl/guy friends have brunch, exchange gifts and generally bask in each other’s awesomeness, or try a ‘Treat Yo’Self’ day, in which you can realise that those who think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop.
Study! If you want to ignore the day all together, why not take an intensive study day? The library will be fairly empty, and those annoying couples who do no work and giggle constantly will be blissfully absent. Plus, if you’re an internet dating user, you just know that Tinder/Grindr will be full of lonely and bored fellow students. As long as you get some work done too, that is…
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