You have to study, but you don't want to. Maybe the material for this test is duller than your aunt's family photo album. Maybe you dutifully passed up a spur of the moment Netflix binge with your friends, and now you resent even looking at your textbook. Maybe you just enjoy procrastination.

Whatever the reason, we are here to help. Follow this guide around Ithaca College for the optimal places to pretend to study. With a little help, you can get less done than you ever have before!

1. Your Room

Start in your room. Open your textbook or packet of scribbled notes, then remember that you needed to send an email to your professor about something. Forget to close your computer after the email. After a small amount of time, say 10 minutes to 3.5 seconds, decide to quickly check Facebook. Leave your room after you realize an hour has passed.

2. 2nd Floor of the Library

Go to the library. You start on the second floor and get coffee, then struggle to find a desk, chair, or table. You finally find one but decide the second floor is too loud anyway.

3. 4th Floor of the Library

Take the big staircase to the 4th floor, but be sure to walk up it really slowly so it feels majestic. Try to find a desk spot, but see that every desk near an outlet (you need to charge your phone of course) is taken or has someone sitting next to it whom you don't know.

4. This Bench

You think, "Hey, why not sit outside? It's a nice day." Try to read your book on a bench under a tree. No, wait, it's way too windy for that. Your pages keep flipping over your hand.

5. This Other Bench

Try the a different bench nearby, one with more building and tree cover to reduce the wind. Read here for a minute, then get uncomfortable on the hard wood bench that can't lean back. Plus, people keep slamming the doors going into the library and it's very distracting.

6. By The Textor Fish

Try the concrete area by the Textor Fish. Leave without sitting down, because it looks like the fish is staring at you. Studying you.

7. A Random Classroom

You read in class all the time, so a classroom has to be the best spot, right? You walk into an empty classroom, turn on the lights, and sit in a random seat. Then another one, the first one had something on the desk. Then another one -- it's weird to sit in the center of an empty room. Then someone walks by and looks in on you like "What the hell is that strange kid doing?" Leave quickly worrying that Public Safety is going to arrest you for crimes against classrooms.

8. Whalen Center Lounge Area

Then you think, "Oh yeah, there's that nice lounge area in Whalen overlooking the quad and the lake. That place is so nice, I'm sure to study well there." Go to the elevator and study standing up while you wait for the elevator to take its damn time. When you finally make it up to the Lounge, keep on walking because it's just a little bit hotter than you'd like.

9. Tiny Piano Room In Whalen

As you're walking somewhere else, decide to study in one of those tiny piano rooms on the bottom floor. Open your book to study, put it down on the piano top, and spend the next 30 minutes trying to play a piano version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Get frustrated as you fail and hear someone else playing Mozart or some fancy junk and leave. Show-off. It's too cold down here anyway.

10. Center For Natural Sciences

Go for broke and decide to study in the Center for Natural Sciences. Maybe the science-y smartness of the building will rub off on you. Find a pretty nice seating area, not too hot, not too cold, and actually start to read. Then, wait, what's that stuff on the table?

Never study near puzzles. First you start solving them. Then it reminds you of grandma's house, and after walking all over campus you do not need a trip down memory lane.

11. South Hill Natural Area

"That's it!" you shout to yourself in public like a weirdo, "I'll go to the natural walk area behind towers and study in the forest. I'll get clean air, I can find a nice stump, it won't be too loud with no one else around and it won't be too quiet because the birds will be chirping. Really, I can't imagine a better..."

Oh hell no, you are not walking up that hill.

12. Your Room Again

Give up and go back to your room to study. You've barely read a sentence and your feet hurt from walking so much. Settle down to study, then see that your professor replied to your email. Absentmindedly open up Facebook...

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