Students, there’s something we need to talk about: Binge watching.

After much contemplation and hours (upon hours) of watching "Dance Moms," I’ve finally come to a conclusion and I think it’s pretty valid.

We go to classes and have lots of homework, projects, papers, extracurricular activities, jobs and applications to fill out. And oh my goodness, someone save me. It's safe to say that we can get super stressed out sometimes. So, naturally, what is our response?

You guessed it, Netflix. (Or if you’re me, Hulu.) (Or if you’re some people, you actually watch normal television.)

Binge-watching has become its own culture full of stressed-out procrastinators addicted to watching entire seasons of shows in one sitting. (I’m looking at you, "Grey’s" fans.) But I propose that the reason we are binge watching is not to blame on the availability of the show. I blame it on the homework. And I am not biased at all, obviously, with my hundreds of pages of reading to do.

We feel stressed and anxious, and who is to blame us if we just want to watch one episode before we start our mile-long to-do list? Except that the more we think about what we have to do and the more stressed out we get, the more we feel like we deserve a break. We deserve to watch that next episode because we are so stressed out.

So, as far as I can diagram it, it goes something like this:

Stress = stress relief through binge watching = more stress because now I have less time = more binge watching so I’ll stop stressing = YAY, next episode!

It is a vicious cycle, my friends.

I realize this is a problem.

But I also know this is a problem for tons and tons of students because I live in a building with roughly 600 students who seem to all be doing the same thing.

And not only does this stop us from doing homework or help us put off our responsibilities an extra day, I think it makes us less productive human beings in general. I like to read and paint, and everyone has something fun they like to do in their spare time. But, because of this cycle of binge watching, being stressed and trying to complete the things that stress us instead of binge watching, we lose some of those activities that we so enjoy.

I know that going to school is a privilege, and the work we have, school-related or otherwise, is work that we should put a lot of effort into. But when those things make me want to stare at my computer screen for hours on end, make me too stressed and too tired to enjoy those other activities and keep me in a perpetual state of struggle, it’s just difficult to deal with and leaves me feeling incredibly unproductive.

I’m not sure how to fix it. I'll be the first one to admit that I binge watch more than I actually do homework.

But hey, at least now I know why I do it.