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12 Things You Do When You Don’t Want to Study

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Delaware chapter.

College is a place of intense studying and responsibility. However, where there’s work, there’s always an equal amount of procrastination.

 

– Nap. Napping is the solution to all of life’s problems. It requires no explanation.

– Planning out the rest of the day. I mean, let’s be real, you probably won’t end up devoting your entire afternoon to calculus, or spend an hour on the elliptical. But you never know, right

– Planning out the rest of your life. I mean you can’t not think about your future family- with a gorgeous spouse, three adorable, well behaved children and your labradoodle. Your job as the CEO of Google and your gorgeous beachside mansion are pretty exciting to think about it. Your future is obviously way more important than some stupid essay, amiright?

– Snapchat literally all your friends from home. Sometimes you have something to say, like a funny roommate story or an inside joke. More often though, these snaps are just of you with your eyes bulged, experimenting with every crazy filter out there. Basically, you’re sending the people you care about the most the most unflattering images of yourself. But your friends are probably doing the same so it’s all good

– Take a second nap. Because 2>1

– Answer questions that have been burning on your mind. Maybe it’s about that bruise on your arm- should I be worried about it? Or what became of that random girl you met for a few hours on vacation a few years ago. If you don’t look it up you’ll never know, and that’s just not okay.

– Netflix: You all knew this would be on here. I mean, you do need to catch up on the lives of your good pals Jim and Pam. What would you do without them?

– Listen to throwbacks from middle school. No amount of stress is too much for the healing powers of Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers, young T-Swift, and all your other best friends from 2010. Start listening and soon you’ll forget you even had work in the first place

– Read old emails. In the midst of all this nostalgia, you begin to remember what an idiot you were back in the day, and decide to scroll through facebook and your email to 2010 just to laugh at how u wud tlk like dis 2 b kewl

– Sing every song you’ve ever known. Who cares if you sound like a dying whale? Obviously nobody that’s worth your time.

– Look up sad youtube videos and cry: The beginning of Tarzan. ‘nuf said

– Decorate: you’d always promised yourself you’d have a cute dorm room, but just never got around to making it happen. but now you’re finally remembering, so you gotta take advantage of this and actually make it happen.

1% evil, 99% hot gas
Amanda Schuman is a junior at the University of Delaware. She is currently majoring in communications with a concentration in mass media and double minoring in journalism and interactive media. Amanda is passionate about all things communications whether it's social media, public relations, writing or just networking. In her free time she can be found watching sit-coms on Netflix, with a book in hand or eating anything sweet. You can follow her @bluehen_amanda