Everyone's guilty of procrastinating. Even if you are the kind of person who always gets everything done on time, you have at least once in your life probably started and finished an assignment the day it was due. Writing a paper seems to be one of those assignments that goes untouched for weeks. This assignment stares and judges you until the bitter end, when you muster up the strength and manage to get your shit together when it's, as your professor would say, "too late." Page requirements, scholarly articles, and luring deadlines easily make the paper the most infamous assignment by far.

We are always warned not to "leave it until the night before" because it's an assignment that "requires deep critical thinking" that might take a while (pshh). Regardless of this advice, you have probably gone through the following stages more than once in your life:

1. Waking up, looking at your phone and recognizing the date as familiar.

2. Realizing there's a paper due today and contemplating just going back to bed.

3. Taking out your laptop in an effort to get it done early and actually be productive.

4. Opening a Word Document, titling it, saving it, and staring at the blank screen for a while.

5. Convincing yourself you've done enough work to warrant going to breakfast because of course, work done on an empty stomach won't be too good.

6. Returning to your blank Word Document, writing your name and maybe even the first sentence.

7. Immediately responding "yes" when someone asks if you want to go somewhere or do them a favor to avoid more writing.

8. Going back to your marvelous sentence, realizing you hate it, rewriting it. You might as well have a blank page at this point.

9. Now you're on a roll and you end up writing the whole introduction, if you're really doing well you get through the first paragraph.

10. Rewarding yourself for all your hard work and opening Safari.

11. 4 articles, 14 retweets, and 27 Instagram likes later you return to your empty-looking Word Document to continue your very hard work.

12. Reading the atrocity you called a paper and rewriting 80% of what you had, essentially starting from scratch.

13.Deciding to turn on your going-out playlist for motivation.

14. The music is making you excited to go out, so you pick out outfits for the next night at the bar while singing/dancing to "Ignition."

15. You're down to the last hour now so you decide to try and just power through.

16. Changing the period sizes one-by-one to take up time and space even though you know you could do it all at once.

17. Realizing there's only 20 minutes left before class, thinking "eff it, it's fine" and printing it.

18. Power walking to class like an olympian, paper in hand, sweating and slightly out of breath.

19. Bursting through the door to the classroom like:

20. Proudly handing in the paper. Swearing you'll never do it again.

We always proclaim that we will never put ourselves through those awful, anxiety-ridden few hours again. But then another paper with an uninteresting topic and a looming due date rolls around at about the same time a new season of Grey's is released on Netflix. What should you do? Everyone knows the answer to that. What will you do? Netflix. Always Netflix.