Harvard Square Holiday Shopping in Under 30 Minutes

Need a study break? (That's a trick question—when do you not?) Need to find gifts for everyone on your list? (Of course you do.) Kill two birds with one stone by heading out of Lamont and into the Square for half an hour. You'll come back refreshed and ready to start your paper and, better yet, with all your holiday shopping done.

Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.):

Help your friends and family catch up on their reading this holiday season. Extra points if you give books written by Harvard alums—like this season's wildly popular "The Art of Fielding"—or books by the year's most controversial professors.

Urban Outfitters (11 JFK Street):

Send some not-so-subtle messages to those on your list with room for improvement in their daily habits.

Be more green by bringing your own adorable and reusable cup.

Or be more hipster with a knit O'Hanlon Mills laptop case. Neoprene is so last season.

Give your roommates these handy "Get the hint" stickies and help them practice peaceful coexistence.

Tealuxe (0 Brattle Street) and Cardullo's (6 Brattle Street):

For those on your list who appreciate a good caffeine buzz where others appreciate a fine wine.

Give non-drinkers a festive way to ring in the new year—with a champagne tea party, complete with teapots!

You know you've always wanted to try inhaling caffeine! Gift this three-pack of inhalers, and your receiver will be sure to give you a whiff.

And finally, Taza's pure cacao disc is sure to please the purists on your list.

Black Ink (5 Brattle Street):

Please all those people you don't know at all but somehow still need to buy presents for, and also the special ones who wouldn't like traditional gifts anyway.

Head to Black Ink for recycled rubber bands, handy-dandy notebooks, and everything else your friends and family never knew they needed.