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Re exercise: Good point, but I'd emphasize making a strong habit over doing it a lot. Spending a lot of time is easier during summer, but harder to carry over. Sure, do that, but also make sure you have a 15 minute routine, say, that you do every morning. Even a five minute routine isn't to be sneezed at, if you're doing bodyweight exercises like pushups.
Doing a stretch and 5 minutes of exercise during study breaks is worth a try. Could help avoid some of the physical problems with long hours of computer use. (Press down with your whole hand during pushups - strong fingers, hands and arms will help avoid RSI.)
Yeah, second this. My physical therapist after my stroke recommended doing thirty pushups and thirty situps every day... which when I started would take most of the day and leave me wiped out (because, hey, stroke) and after about six months of PT became something I knocked off in the morning before going to work, but I regretted giving up the habit (and have recently picked it back up).
Where are resources for finding an effective, context-appropriate exercise routine?
Fourthing the exercise habit. A good tracker I have found to stay at it and for confidence building is Fit-o-Cracy
I would like to offer an alternative point of view: if you have 3 months to kick-start yourself, start by exercising in a very focused way, on something you don't expect to become routine: for example, if you do 3 months of lifting/strength training/high intensity interval training, you will build up enough muscles that making exercise routing when you go to college will be much easier than doing it now.
Thirding exercise habits.