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55 Ways To Procrastinate For Finals

It involves Nickelback and a lot of tears.

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55 Ways To Procrastinate For Finals
Seventeen

I've done such a good job this semester avoiding all academic responsibilities and it would be such a shame to stop now simply because finals are around the corner. I may not have straight A's (or B's) but I do know some fun(ish) ways to avoid having to study. Here are the things I'd rather be doing than opening my textbook.

1. Read Moby Dick.


2. Run.

3. Honestly any form of exercise in general.

4. Watch "Charlie Bit my Finger" on repeat for five hours.

5. Find my old Motorola Razor.

6. Subsequently write and send a chain message on my Motorola Razor.

7. Make an entire meal using solely an Easy Bake Oven.

8. Write a strongly worded letter to literally anyone.

9. Make a claymation video similar to Ben Wyatt.

10. Learn how to knit.

11. Watch paint dry.

12. Hang out at the DMV.

13. Watch any movie that stars Nicholas Cage.

14. Make Nicholas Cage memes.

15. Write thank you letters for my third-grade birthday party.

16. Be put on hold by AT&T listening to elevator music for 12 hours.

17. Re-watch the entire Twilight series and attempt to defend Edward's stalker tendencies online.

18. Go to prison.

19. Listen to someone tell me about their dreams.

20. Fold two million pairs of socks.

21. Make a Prezi.

22. Direct my own adaptation of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream"

23. Spend all the money in my checking account on Kylie Jenner's lip kits.

24. Listen to Nickelback for 30 seconds.

25. Learn how to re-wire something.

26. Relive finding out that Hogwarts isn't real.

27. Learn to like sports.

28. Dress up and attend a Medieval Fair.

29. Get in an argument with a Maninist.

30. Sit in the rain and catch pneumonia.

31. Prepare for the impending zombie apocalypse.

32. Learn how to pronounce Worcestershire.

33. Go fishing.

34. Listen to any politician talk about anything.

35. Start the South Beach diet.

36. Jury duty.

37. Get a tattoo of the Chinese symbol for "hope."

38. Continue to try and get Ina Garten to tweet me back.

39. Have to spend another week at the golf camp that my dad forced to attend in middle school.

40. Play chess.

41. Become addicted to Minecraft.

42. Shop at Lowe's.

43. Go to Macy's with my mom.

44. Sing "Let it Go" with my three-year-old cousin on repeat.

45. Sit in 5 p.m. traffic in Chicago.

46. Listen to my roommate snore.

47. Watch grass grow.

48. Produce my own low budget horror film.

49. Memorize all of the X words in the Dictionary.

50. Watch 6,000 YouTube ads.

51. Respond to all of my old group chats.

52. Root canal.

53. Star in my own infomercial.

54. Burn my tongue on hot coffee.

55. Write a 500-word article for Odyssey.

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