Procrastination. We all know what it's like. However, even the most avid procrastinators can run out of things to do instead of what you should be doing. So whether you're putting off doing laundry for another day or stressing about your history paper, here are 50 things to do instead of writing that paper you're putting off.
1. Watercolor painting.
2. Take a 3 hour nap.
3. Cry into a Lean Cuisine.
4. Learn how to play the banjo.
5. Perfect your Shakira impersonation.
6. Stalk the guy who played Coach Bolton in High School Musical on Instagram.
7. Watch the videos they put on Facebook where another video automatically plays when the first one is done so you think you're watching a two minute food video and then two hours go by and you're still watching.
8. Go to Disney World (it could happen)!
9. Rewatch the entire "Gilmore Girls" series for the third time.
10. Listen to every song Ed Sheeran has ever released.
11. Do the laundry of everyone on your floor.
12. Text someone telling them how much they mean to you.
13. Plan out birthday gifts for everyone in your life for the next two years.
14. Order a pizza from Domino's and then track it (you can even pick the theme of your Domino's pizza tracker, 10/10 would recommend).
15. Take an online course and get your boating license.
16. Try on every item of clothing that you own.
17. Plan a European vacation.
18. Go grocery shopping.
19. Start an Instagram for your dog.
20. Teach yourself how to lucid dream.
21. Go on a run.
22. Take a long shower.
23. Make a pillow fort.
24. Discover a new weird-but-good food combination (chocolate covered pickle?).
25. Take another nap.
26. Write reviews on your professors to help future generations.
27. Make a list of your favorite famous "Jack's".
28. Create the ultimate Christmas music playlist.
29. Start decorating your room for Christmas (because honestly it's never too early).
30. Learn how to do a new type of braid.
31. Change your phone background/laptop screensaver.
32. Make Venmo requests to friends for ridiculous things.
33. Start a prank war with literally anyone.
34. Watch youtube videos from 2012 and see how much the world has changed.
35. Try weird chip flavors.
36. Bake something and bring some to everyone you know.
37. Photoshop Ed Sheeran into all your pictures.
38. Learn how to swear in other languages.
39. Take a third nap.
40. Start your memoir.
41. Lie on the ground and groan, Tina Belcher style.
42. Find the worst-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes and watch them.
43. Check Twitter. Then Pinterest. Maybe even Tumblr if you get desperate.
44. Create a dating profile on Farmers Only.
45. Do an interpretive dance.
46. Wash your sheets.
47. Create a LinkedIn profile because why not.
48. Brush your teeth.
49. Listen to Harry Potter Audiobooks.
50. Write your Odyssey article for this week.