Deadline? Finals? Presentations? Oh look, an innocent looking object to distract from everything wrong with me and school.

We've all done it. We all do it. We commit the biggest educational sin that screws us over in ways we can't even imagine: procrastination.

Why do we procrastinate? Easy. We dread responsibility. We fear the idea of doing something that'll affect us in a negative. What's worse? Being responsible for something we have no legitimate care for. Where does that come from? General Education courses.

Yup. I said it. General Education causes just about all students headaches and exhaustion that last for approximately two years—unless you're a Liberal Studies major.

Speaking from experience, I dreaded my G.E. classes. Biology? Ha. Chemistry? Interesting, but not important. Math? Good at it, but won't deal with calculus in whatever I do. Going home each night to homework that serves no long-term purpose for us makes us want to not do it. All in agreement? I thought so.

I'm a Multimedia major, and I know when I was taking Environmental Science, Physics and Anthropology classes that I wanted to jump out the closest window and run away from all the homework that was assigned and papers that were due. It's hard to put your focus on something that serves no interest or purpose to you. I've gone to Starbucks with friends who stare at the wall, plant their face on the table or go through their playlist on Spotify to avoid papers they have to write and tests they have to study for—all because we're required to take those 51 units of crap that we won't care about when we leave college.

Besides, who really wants to do homework when we're supposed to? There's function in our brains that sees homework and tells us that we don't want to do it. "No, you don't want to do this homework. You want to go binge watch that show on Netflix. You want to go drive to the store to pick up something you don't need. You want to jam out to your Spotify playlist, exhaust yourself and pass out." We take every distraction like our attention span is that of a dog.

Yet when all is said and done, we push ourselves. We push ourselves to the brink of losing our minds because, no matter how long we distract ourselves, we'll stay up till three in the morning to finish that paper on European Socialism or to figure out why the author of that book made the wallpaper yellow. Because the pressure of waiting until the last minute mixed with the pressure of passing the class adds to the satisfaction of telling that teacher "screw you" for knowing that you'd wait till the last minute to do the homework and for thinking it'd be impossible to do it then.