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21 Things to Do While You’re Procrastinating

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

Have a lot of assignments to do, but you don’t want to do them? Need some way to procrastinate? Check out our suggestions for prime procrastination.

 

1. Find some food to eat. Cheez-Its and M&M are excellent snack foods.

 

2. Take a field trip to the vending machine to get said snack foods.

 

 

3. Have a conversation in the hallway with an RA about your favorite snack foods.

 

 

4. Change study locations three times before settling on one.

 

 

5. Read a Her Campus Xavier article.

 

6. Or two…

 

 

7. Take a Buzzfeed quiz.

 

8. Or three…

 

9. Go online window-shopping on Amazon.

 

 

10. Actually, go online window-shopping on all your favorite websites.

 

11. Check literally all of your social media sites.

 

12. Look at your cringe-worthy photos from middle school that you definitely shouldn’t have posted on Facebook.

 

13. Reminisce on the good old days before you had responsibilities.

 

 

14. Research summer jobs and internships.

 

15. Or nah.

 

 

16. Plan a dream vacay.

 

17. Complain about the work that you have to do.

 

 

18. Take a lap around the building.

 

19. Wash the dirty dishes that you’ve procrastinated doing.

 

 

20. Figure out who would play you and all of your friends in a sitcom based on your life.  

 

21. Write this Her Campus article.

 

 

Margot Bond

Xavier '20

Margot is a senior Economics, Sustainability, and Society major with minors in Political Science and Gender and Diversity Studies from Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to writing articles for Her Campus, she is a Resident Assistant at Xavier and involved in student sustainability. She loves listening to John Mayer, watching Netflix, and doing crosswords with her boyfriend. Most importantly, she is 100% a cat person.