Jeff, your school should have a counselor you can see for free if you feel like it.

I went to school in Boston. It's one of my favorite places. If you are at the pharmacy down from the Art School in the Longwood Area, you are surrounded by awesome stuff. I know you don't feel like going out, but there's so much to do, especially for introverts. I did almost everything alone. I didn't do all of this but I wanted to...

If you like music there are all the recitals and concerts at NEC, Berkley and the other schools. There's the Symphony, Pops, Boston Baroque, Opera, Shows, and Handel and Haydn Society.

You can go downtown and have dinner in the North End (or just get coffee and Italian cookies). There's all the historical sites, and Faneuil Hall and markets. Old Ironsides. The Aquarium.

There's the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. You could drop by Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral on the Fens (behind the Art Museum and across the park) for Saturday Vespers and see the icons. The "Mission Church" on Tremont at the top of the hill is cool too.

Near Harvard Square on Brattle Street and Farwell Place there's a chocolate place you can get great hot chocolate, and there used to be a tea shop in one direction, and my absolute favorite sandwich/bread shop ever in the other.

I walked all over and never spent a lot of money. You can get Dunkin' Donuts coffee across from the Union Oyster House on Hanover. I walked all over the North End.

There's a cool bookstore called Grolier, across from Harvard on Plympton, behind the Harvard Bookstore, and of course the Harvard Coop. There was another one off Boston Common on Boylson that was really cool.

I lived over by Jamaica Pond and walked by it every day. When the weather warms up the ducks and geese have babies and it's awesome watching them bobbing around on the water. Walking around on the Fens was great, even when it was freezing out. I loved the oak trees. The geese used to sit on the ice in the stream, like it was still water.

I don't mean that to be overwhelming, but just getting out and walking around you find all sorts of cool stuff, and it's nice walking around. I walked from Boston College to Jamaica Pond a couple times. One of the things I miss most about Boston was that you could always get fresh baked bread.