Your textbooks are spread out on the table, your headphones are in, and you're staring at your computer screen. You're in the library, so one would assume that you are studying for a test coming up, working on assignments that are due the next day, or maybe even working ahead. Let's face it, though, you're not doing any of the above. Instead, you're probably scrolling through your Facebook feed, taking BuzzFeed quizzes online, or maybe even watching Netflix. Let's explore the things that actually happen in the library.
1. Take at least one lap around the library to find your “spot.”
Important decisions include: upstairs vs. downstairs, comfy chair vs. table vs. cubicle, and by the windows in the back of the library vs. by the computers in the front of the library.
2. Put your bookbag down...
and immediately pull out your phone.
3. Respond to texts...
and check the weather, Instagram, and Snapchat.
4. Pull out your laptop...
and check Facebook.
5. Find the perfect Spotify playlist.
6. Take off your jacket.
7. Check Facebook and your phone again...
because something new could have occurred within the last few minutes (of course).
8. Think about online shopping.
9. Restrain yourself because you have a lot of homework and you are a broke college student.
10. Stress about how much homework you have to accomplish today.
11. Listen to the conversation of the people behind you.
12. Watch people.
13. Take out your books to look productive.
14. Snapchat a picture of how much homework you have been doing.
15. Check Facebook “one last time...”
and see that someone shared a quiz.
16. Check the time...
and realize that you have spent the last 20 minutes finding out “what animal you are,” “what your name really means,” and “what celebrity you look like.”
17. Realize that you are hungry and leave the library to get a snack.
18. Come back...
and realize that you don’t have a charger.
19. Come back...
and realize that it has been an hour since you first walked into the library and you still haven’t done any homework, but scroll through Instagram anyway.
20. Fill up your water bottle, take multiple “social laps,” and talk/distract your friends who are actually studying (are they really?).
21. Come back to your place in the library and repeat the steps again.
Let's be honest, you are probably reading this in the library right now. Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us.





















