I am a procrastinator. I put off things until unnecessarily late and then loathe myself for waiting that long to do them. The whole process is just a vicious cycle that starts over even though I say I won’t do it again almost every time. I tell myself every week that I will get ahead on work and next thing I know it's Sunday night and I am regretting everything I didn’t do. But here’s the thing, I say I hate it and I constantly tell myself I should change my habits, but I know I won’t.

Fellow procrastinators understand the cycle. When someone asks me why I do this to myself, my excuse is always “I work better under pressure” but is that really why? Partially yes, but I think it is more of a personality type. Some people need to plan out their day hour by hour, I just plan that I will eventually get my work done. If you can relate to this then you know there are certain things you tell yourself when you are procrastinating.

10 things procrastinating students tell themselves:

1. I’m not lazy, I work better under pressure

2. I’ll do it tomorrow morning

3. I can watch Netflix, I have a whole 3 hours until that thing is due

4. “I'll start a 8:00,” looks at clock at 8:02 “oh I guess I should wait till 9:00”

5. My grade can take a 0 on one assignment, right?

6. It’s a rough draft, that means it can be rough

7. I deserve a break, I’ve done 1 of my 20 assignments

8. Cleaning my room is so important right at this exact moment when I should be doing homework

9. I’ll take 20 minutes to calculate what I need to get on this test to keep an A instead of actually studying

10. Let me just take a 10 minute nap. *wakes up 2 days later*