Procrastination is my profession. Except I do not get paid. If I did I would be living in a condominium in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but at the moment I am a broke college student. We have all given in before. The lies that we tell ourselves; "One more episode and then I will get started on that 10 page paper due at 11:59 p.m." or "This assignment is not going to affect my grade that much."
There are an infinite amount of distractions and here are 10 of them.
1. Netflix
Netflix and more Netflix, anyone?
2. You do not care about the topic.
Why should the square root of an imaginary number concern me?
3. Facebook
There should at least be an optional dislike button.
4. You think you can write in an hour so you leave it until the hour before it is due.
Putting the "pro" in procrastination.
5. YouTube
6. The assignment is only worth 15% of your grade and you can still pass the class without doing it.
Dismissed!
7. You want to do some shopping on Amazon first.
Add it all to your cart, see the total and end up moving the items into your wish list.
8. You already started the episode so you might as well finish watching that first.
The first stage of binge-watching a TV show.
9. You finished the first episode and you fell in too deep. You are now on the tenth out of the twelve episodes of the first season and you decide to finish watching the first season before starting on your assignment.
Coming close to the end-stage of binge-watching a TV show.
10. You finished the assignment and are pretty sure you did well enough to not get an F or it was too late and you decided to sleep instead of writing it at 5 in the morning.
Everything is going to be okay. You are not alone.