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60 Things I'd Literally Rather Do Than Study For Finals

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It's finally that time my friends! Nope, it's not just darty season. It's two weeks from finals week, it's time that we go through everything we've learned this semester and memorize it. Procrastination is my worst enemy and here are 60 things I'd rather be doing than studying for finals.

1. Darty.

2. Eat tacos.

3. Ride a bicycle.

4. Do 500 jumping jacks.

5. Run a 5k.

6. Clean my room.

7. Wash my car.

8. Do laundry.

9. Take the time to do a white, darks, and colors load.

10. Refresh social media 5 times in 2 minutes.

11. Call all relatives.

12. Call extended family and ask how their dog walker is doing.

13. Reorganize all my binders.

14. But not look at any of the content.

15. Read a book about flies.

16. Draw on all of my SnapChat selfies.

17. Look up the lyrics to every song that I listen to.

18. Learn those lyrics.

19. Organize my sock drawer.

20. Go through my closet.

21. Bring the clothes I don't want to a donation center.

22. A donation center that's an hour away.

23. Binge watch anything on Netflix.

24. Go on an unfollowing spree.

25. Creep on Instagram Famous people.

26. Make a playlist.

27. Never mind. Make 7 playlists for each day of the week.

28. Pretend to be tired.

29. Take four hour naps with only food breaks.

30. Pretend to be sick so I'm forced to rest.

31. Watch music videos.

32. Make a list of reasons why I'm thinking about dropping out.

33. Avoid the library at all costs.

34. Look up all the clubs and such on campus that I don't take advantage of.

35. Go to the mall and window shop.

36. Then again, since it's the end of the semester brb while I spend all of my remaining money.

37. Make a list of reasons why I need to treat yourself.

38. Buy a bath bomb and stay in the tub for 3 hours.

39. Go get my nails done.

40. Go get my eyebrows waxed.

41. Plan my life.

42. Re-download Tinder and swipe for hours.

43. Bake a cake from scratch.

44. And make my own frosting.

45. Paint my toenails four times in one week.

46. Google things like "is the mitochondria really the powerhouse of the cell?"

47. Go through old school work and try to figure out how I passed these classes.

48. Think of all the reasons that professors shouldn't give finals.

49. Make a countdown for.... anything.

50. Online shop.

51. Finish coloring the 3 zentangle coloring books I bought last year.

52. Go to coffee shops and buy over-priced normal coffee for an artsy picture.

53. Try catching up with people I haven't spoken to in weeks.

54. Add high school teachers on Facebook.

55. Dance.

56. Accidentally drop my phone on my face while holding it above my head.

57. Create a bullet journal.

58. Make a list of things I need to do.

59. Don't actually do a single thing on that list.

60. Take a deep breath because in reality I need to study for my finals.

We all have to take them, and there's no avoiding it. While there are probably hundreds of other things I'd rather be doing, this is what I need to be doing now. Summer is around the corner.

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