1. SLEEP. I always want sleep. It seems that in college sleep just kind of gets neglected and, personally, I cannot function this way. I crave sleep. When I do not get enough sleep, I feel it in every little nook of my body. Sleep is bae (before all else). As I do my homework, I sit at my desk and gaze longingly at my bed, wishing nothing more than to dive between the sheets and sleep until next semester. Sorry, Professor, I would have loved to discuss Act 3 of Hamlet today, but I fell asleep when reading again.
2. Watch Netflix. I think this is what most people want to be doing instead of homework. Netflix is a way to let my mind know it is okay to not think for twenty minutes. Between 80 question exams and 10 page papers, I just want to snuggle up with my iPad and spend some quality time with my favorite comdedic characters. I read somewhere that we develop relationships with the characters in our favorite TV Shows because we spend so much time with them. I could totally believe this. Watching Netflix is relaxing, because my favorite characters always know how to cheer me up. So, instead of doing homework right now, can I please just watch one episode of Netflix?
3. Eating. Eating in college Is more than a requirement. Sure, you have breakfast, lunch and dinner, but then you also have 10 o'clock Krispy Kreme, Midnight Taco Bell, and 2am McDonald's. Food outings are bonding time, they are way for you to meet the many other people on your campus who also do not want to be doing homework. Food is a reward for a well written half a paper "On Whales", or a solid thirty minutes cramming for BI 101. Food makes my brain work, so shouldn't I spend a little of my study time eating?
4. Skyping my dog. I think our professors underestimate the toll it takes on us to suffer from homesickness. Sometimes I miss my mom's cooking or my dad's jokes so much, I simply cannot write another word of my 20 billion page paper due tomorrow. Seriously, I just want to call them and hear about their day. I need to play a board game with them to get my brain working again. Maybe I just need my dog to lick my hand, because her magic dog saliva is the cure. There has to be a solution, because another day without crawfish and Mardi Gras and I think I will stop functioning. I miss my family. I miss my dog. I genuinely think homesickness is a justifiable illness keeping me from doing my homework right now.
5. Exercising. Haha, just kidding. Exercising requires even more motivation than homework.
