Turn Me On

BECAUSE I'VE TURNED OFF MY TELEVISION FOR COMMUNICATION 103

The TV Is On 50 Hours A Week In The Average Household ...40% Of Households Eat Dinner With The Set On.... Individuals Watch An Average Of 30 Hours A Week

"Sometimes you just have to shut it off."

101 Things I Might Do, If  I "Just Say No" To Television For One Week

Composed By Students Enrolled Com 1-Oh-1, 1994-1996

1. Learn to cook by taking a cooking class.

2. Write a letter to your grandmother or grandfather.

3. Go home on a Friday and surprise your mom or dad by buying lunch.

4. Wash and wax every inch of your car.

5. Write a letter to your little brother or sister that they should not open till their first day  of college.

6. Exercise an hour and a half every day.

7. Take a ride on the Par-a-dice.

8. Work an additional 15 hours so you can take your boyfriend or girlfriend to an expensive restarant..

9. Sleep all day on Saturdays for a month.

10. Compelte the 1-oh-1 take home final exam.

11. Call you three best friends from high school.

12. Learn to play golf.  Take 3 lessons

13. Write a letter to a high school teacher who in some way touched your life.

14. Learn how to use  a new software program.

15. Send a card to a person who you were once in love with, who you wish was still your friend.

16. Go and visit your family.

17. Go spend twelve hours alone experiencing nature.

18. Go to a nursing home one weekend, walk from room to room and sing songs.

19. Spend two hours a day in the library for a week.

20. Write a quick note to your family  every day telling them "you love and miss them".

21. Go on an eight hour power shopping blitz.

22. Plan a reunion weekend for your friends in Peoria this summer.

23. Get all your junk together for when you have to leave for summer.

24. Write letters to three women or men you want to date this summer.

25. Clean and straighten your room every day.

26. Walk for an hour every day and experience and enjoy spring.

27. Try to write a comic strip.

28. Learn to play golf.

29. Record your girlfriend's or boyfriend's twenty-favorite songs on a CD and send it  to her.

30. Work 20 more hours a week and take the  money and "blow it" foolishly.

31. Write a newspaper feature article and send it to the school newspaper..

32. Invest 15 hours looking for a summer job.

33. Interview three important people in the community and write up your impressions.

34. Find new and different ways to relax e.g. meditation, yoga, ect.

35. Get you ears, nose, and belly-button pierced.

36. Practice your instrument for eight hours.

37. Spend five hours collecting food for the local soup kitchen and take it there.

38. Crotchet an afghan for you grandmother for her birthday..

39. Attend a workshop on meditation.

40. Drive to Chicago and see a great concert.

41. Plan a non-stop 24 hour romantic day and night for your girlfriend or boyfriend.

42. Balance your checkbook.

43. Read five magazines cover to cover.

44. Complete your resume and cover letter.

45. Devote 10 hours exclusively to finding a girlfriend, boyfriend or date.

46. Visit the Smith Career Center.

47. Learn to juggle.

48. Spend all your free time making one new friend.

49. Spend a half-hour each day just talking to you girlfriend or boyfriend.

50. Find a neat place to run everyday.

51. Sit down and write this years chapter in your biography.

52. Spend time each day just doing things for your friends.

53. Play basketball everyday.

54. Spend more time with your girlfriend/boyfriend and find three new and different places to go.

55. Cook one gourmet meal for your friends.

56. Spend more time outside playing frisbee golf.

57. Find out what you need to do in order to learn to skydive.

58. Read one really good novel and one trashy-erotic novel.

59. Read the number one book on the best-seller fiction and non-fiction list..

60. Learn how to play Blackjack, practice at home, and go to the Para-a-dice.

61. Write a letter to a childhood friend.

62. Take a nap everyday so you have more energy.

63. Go to one of the medical centers and volunteer for an entire day.

64. Go back to your elementary school and talk to your teachers about you.

65. Go and visit and surprise your grandparents.

66. Get a camera and make a photo album.

67. Write an article on what it was like to give up your television for a week, try to get  it published.

68. Walk five places during the week when you usually drive.

69. Organize a surprise party for someone.

70. Send out invitations for party or get together this summer in your home town.

71. Go rafting, see vermillionrafting.com.

72. Lift weights everyday so you are in shape for swim suit season.

73. Take a steamy hot bubble bath every day with sensual oils during which you read Sports Illustrated.

74. Practice making the perfect dry martini.

75. Take a road trip to Champaign-Urbana.

76. Play golf on the three best golf courses in Central Illinois.

77. Rent the room with the jacuzzi at the Piere-Marquette, and treat your friends to a  party.

78. Surf the "net".

79. Plan out your course schedule for the next 6  semesters.

80. Paint a painting with watercolors.

81. Do something you have never done before, write down your observations.

82. Find someone to give me a therapeutic massage everyday for a week.

83. Keep a diary in which you write down your thoughts and feelings each day for a week.

84. Listen to a comedy CD  for an hour each night.

85. Interview your grandparents, make a video or written record of the family history.

86. Make a list of 101 goals you want to accomplish by the time you are 25.

87. Attend two pre-professional meetings (e.g Bradley Broadcasters, Public Relations Student Society).

88. Attend a cultural event that you have never done before (ballet, recital, play).

89. Take a roadtrip to the Museum of Broadcasting in Chicago.

90. Wait for a beautiful spring day, take bicycles to Chicago, ride along Lake Michigan.

91. Share your expertise with someone, tutor someone in a class in which you are getting a  "A".

92. Buy a copy of a magazine you have never read before and read it cover to cover.

93. Start and develop a scrapbook of your college years.

94. Explore new frontiers (e.g.go to the Indiana Dunes State Park).

95. Attend a baseball game, buy some peanuts and cracker-jack.

96. Go on a scavenger hunt in Chicago for famous people's autographs.

97. Interview five people in the "real world" who have jobs you might like to have  someday.

98. Spend the entire week creating a cartoon, try to get it published.

99. Check out a camcorder and make a college life and times video to show to your children

100. Take a road trip to Turkey Run in Indiana, go canoeing and horseback riding.

101. Read a book from the Select 100: 100 Books That Communication Majors Should Read.