Coping with College
If you or someone you know need immediate help, call University Police at 585-245-5222, or call 911 or 211. For other immediate assistance, text "GOT5" to 741-741 for Crisis Text Line or call 1-800-273-TALK (both 24/7).
Visit our Mental Health Quick Resource List for additional 24/7 hotlines, Counseling Services information, and both on-campus well-being resources.
Wellbeing Activities for Students
- Online and Virtual Activities
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- Volunteer to help others (some in person, some virtual)
- Take a free course on "The Science of Well-Being"
- Listen to a random forest from around the world
- Look at beautiful photographs from the College's former photographer, Keith Walters
- Browse the College's Photo Gallery
- Participate in a reading challenge
- Start a gratitude journal
- Write a novel with NaNoWriMo
- Write a song in 6 simple steps
- Make word clouds
- Take a knitting class
- Take painting lessons
- Assemble a jigsaw puzzle
- Figure out how to solve a Rubik's cube
- Build tangrams
- Play with a digital spirograph
- Color a mandala
- Take a guided tour of national parks:
Acadia National Park
Arches National Park
Badlands National Park
Death Valley National Park
Everglades National Park
Glacier National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Joshua Tree National Park - Browse a virtual museum or zoo:
American Museum of Natural History
Art Institute of Chicago
Atlanta Zoo Panda Cam
The Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
San Diego Zoo Live Cams
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Tour Walt Disney World or LegoLand
- Take a roller coaster ride
- Watch one of IMDB's 1000 best movies of all time
- Practice the sign language (ASL) alphabet
- Play a guitar cord
- Learn chess by playing chess
- Learn how to tie a scarf 25 ways
- Learn to tie basic knots
- Do nothing for 10 minutes
- Things to Do in Western NY
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Visit our page on Things to Do in Western NY, compiled by a student and focused largely on outdoor activities. Also view this additional page on Rochester Area Community Resources (provided by Genesee Valley Institute of Psychology).
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