Fall back, fam

5. Win 24 Grammys

Remember that meme about having the same number of hours in a day as Beyoncé? Well, now you have an extra hour — which means even more time to do the things Beyoncé does on the regular! Go ahead: Launch a clothing line, break the Internet with a new album, co-opt a classic Disney film and make it Black and beautiful as hell. Time is on your side!

4. (Re)watch ‘WandaVision’

If you missed this early 2021 hit, there’s no better time to dive in. And with all of that extra time, you can even watch the end credits, which offer barely any Easter eggs and pad, like, 37 minutes onto each episode. We guess you could hum along or something.

3. Have sex

Because, like, it’s sex. Of course, be safe, and get tested (Covid and otherwise) if you plan on hooking up with a Tinder rando. But if you can, just hunch away your extra 60 minutes. Or less. You’ve got nothing to prove.

2. Form an LLC

We’re no financial planners, but we do use Twitter and Clubhouse. If there’s anything those two apps that are never wrong have taught us, it’s that we should use any extra available minutes of our days to start businesses. Do we have products to sell? Do we have any actual business ideas? No and no. But an LLC is the only path to financial stability. So, boom: We’re getting on that right now.

1. Eat everything you can

It’s a proven fact that if you eat during the extra daylight savings hour, the calories don’t count. For real. Eat a cake, some donuts, 12 burgers. Whatever you want. The calories just slide clean off. They go into a portal to another space-time dimension, never to be seen again.

5 Things That Are Definitely Not Sandwiches, Ranked

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Ever wonder how it feels to win $50,000? Welp, here’s your chance to find out!

Medium recently launched a writing competition that is offering payouts of various sums to those who submit the finest essays — pieces that make readers think and/or feel deeply. The Medium Writers Challenge is a chance to express yourself in text, have your ideas read by an esteemed panel of judges (more on that in a bit), and walk away with a hefty bag. If you don’t know, now you know!

Participating in the challenge is simple: Write and post a previously unpublished essay to Medium in response to one of four supplied topics (reentry, space, death, and work). Include the tag that corresponds with the appropriate prompt to include it in the running (each entry can only address one topic). You can write once for each prompt, giving you four opportunities to enter.

Each prompt provides the chance to win $10,000; the top-voted of those four winners will receive an additional $50,000 grand prize. Additionally, 100 honorable mention selections will each win $100. Alongside Medium staff, a panel of cultural leaders, editors, and writers will serve as guest judges to select their favorites. Those judges include Natalie Portman, Roxane Gay, Saeed Jones, Imani Perry, Eve L. Ewing, Dao-Yi Chow, and Julio Vincent Gambuto, plus LEVEL regulars Bonsu Thompson and David Dennis Jr., among others.

If you’re anything like us, the last thing you won was a plush toy at a carnival. Let’s change that streak while sharing your voice and ideas with the world. Check out the link below to read all about the particulars of the Medium Writers Challenge. Write on!

Introducing The Medium Writers Challenge

Got a Story to Tell? Enter The Medium Writers Challenge. was originally published in LEVEL on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.