As a college student, essays quickly become a part of our routine. If you are anything like me, you tend to wait until the very last minute to start your essay. What some students spend weeks on, you spend less than a day on. You're not proud, but it's a habit that is difficult to get rid of.

1. Getting the assignment

You just finished writing a paper for that class or taking a test and the teacher decides to hand you another essay to write. You tell yourself how you are going to start this one ahead of time, but we all know you are just lying to yourself.

2. Procrastinating

Good essays take a lot of time and effort, two things college students never have enough of. You instead refuse to acknowledge that you have an assignment due.

3. Thinking of a topic

If your central claim is inadequate, then your entire essay is useless. The topic you write about is definitely the most important part of your essay.

4. Procrastinating again...

Thinking of a topic was a lot of hard work, so you're going to give yourself a little break.

5. Realizing that your paper is due tomorrow

You could have sworn you had another week left.

6. Regretting your past decisions

You start regretting everything you've done for the past week. You went out with friends for lunch? You should have stayed home and worked on your essay. You went to the gym yesterday? You should have stayed home and worked on your essay.

7. You go into overdrive

You sit in your chair and your fingers just start typing for hours.

8. You do all your research in less than 2 hours

Your professor warned you about all the research that was necessary for this assignment, but instead, you spend less than two hours gathering your information and you just sort of wing it.

9. You feel relieved

You might have stayed up all night working on this paper, but you finished.

10. Doubt

You feel like this is the worst piece of writing you've ever done, but at least it's something.