As finals week rapidly approaches, college students across the nation have been thrown into a state of intense studying, diligently working day in and day out to ensure that they do the best they possibly can on their finals.
Or, more likely, college students across the nation have been thrown into a state of endless procrastination, knowing that they are slowly but surely screwing themselves over, but unable to force themselves to face the reality of their finals week workload.
1. Normal Procrastination
A.k.a the type of procrastination that you’re pretty much constantly doing. This is just your run-of-the-mill, binge-watching TV show on Netflix and scrolling through your Instagram feed flavor of procrastination.
2. ‘I Have Plenty of Time’ Procrastination
A.k.a the type of procrastination that you don’t realize is procrastination until it’s the day before a 7-page paper that you had two weeks to write is due. We all convince ourselves that we won’t need those two weeks to do the paper, and therefore it’s totally fine for us to just put it off for a couple of day. Or a week. Or a week and six days.
3. Social Procrastination
A.k.a hanging out with your friends makes it all too easy to forget how much work you have to do. Your friend wants to go grab smoothies? I mean you have a test tomorrow, but who turns down smoothies in favor of studying the French conditional tense?
4. 'Actually Too Busy To Do Anything' Procrastination
A.k.a the type that only affects people who really don’t have time to do all of their work, unlike those of us who just act like we don’t have time. When you have too much stuff on your plate it sometimes becomes literally impossible to reach the bottom of your to-do list, at least without literally hooking yourself up to an IV of caffeine and not sleeping for a week.
5. Productive Procrastination
A.k.a when you have so much stuff to do that you decide now is the best time to finally clean your room. Possibly the most deadly type of procrastination, because it convinces you that you’re actually accomplishing something (because technically, you are) while your books continue to go unopened and your papers unwritten.
6. Internal-Panic Procrastination
A.k.a when you have so much stuff to do that you just freeze up. On the inside, your mind is racing with the papers you have to write, exams you have to study for, books you have to read, etc. On the outside, you’re just lying around in bed at 1 pm.
*Note: There are many more types of procrastination than these 6, but like I said, finals week approaches and I need to allow for a certain amount of procrastination time if I'm actually going to get anything done.
