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EMERGENCY DANCE PARTY
WRITE A NOVEL WITH YOUR FRIENDS

• During such times of enclosure, stress comes
Go on a fictious adventure with your friends by writing a novel! easy...

Writing a novel is solely related to guiding your thoughts to • If you feel its weight pressing you down, call
for an "Emergency Dance Party"!
form a picture. What better a way to do it than with friends?
• Arrange a video call with a group of friends or
family.
Decide on a plot
Choose
from and your • Share screen and device sound.
different
genres and protagonist's • Unwind to some of your favourites and fling
explore personality
ideas! traits... your arms aggressively in the air!

E.x: "To find • You can even jam out to our Spotify playlist:
Scout with a sinking • https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Lj3p5us
head and a lousy Start writing
a chapter
body, swaying with the guided by UeKG8bLoe1SYxu?si=wcbsGl7-
motion of the swing in emotions RqSnLVhc_ACkhg
the dead of nightfall
was unreal ..."
Email chapters to
Share your your friends and
chapters push each others
with each boundaries to
other!
widen your
horizon.

TAKE AN ONLINE COURSE…

Online courses are something you can utilise to the maximum during lockdown. Different websites, such as

Coursera and EdX, offer a wide range of courses from various universities around the world.

Take this opportunity to travel through new knowledge and open new doors to a variety of fields, whether it is

science, commerce or humanities. Most courses offered are free but if you do wish to obtain a certificate of
verification stating that you have completed a particular course, some finances are required. Feel free to check some

links related to courses offered to by various colleges below!

Harvard: Harvard offers a wide range of courses in heterogeneous subject areas.

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog?

MIT: Ranked as No.1, according to the 2021QS World Rankings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers

divergent courses for you to explore.

https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

https://gradadmissions.mit.edu/programs/degrees/certificate-online

Stanford: Stanford, another prestigious university,

has also taken an initiative to spread knowledge to those

interested in its variety of courses.

https://www.edx.org/school/stanfordonline

https://www.coursera.org/stanford

https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses

Oxford: Offering a great deal in courses, Oxford, like the others, wishes to arouse interest in those longing for
exploring new concepts.

https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/online-courses The Lotus team would like to
give credits to edX Courses,
https://www.edx.org/school/oxfordx Coursera, Harvard
University, MIT, Stanford
University, Oxford University
and Picsart.