With the end of the semester nearly upon us, college students everywhere are trembling with anxiety over the impending doom that some call “finals week.” To prepare for this hellish week of exams, one might assume that students are hard at work reviewing class notes, practicing with flash cards, memorizing vocabulary terms and going over study guides. In a perfect world, that would undoubtedly be the case. But in reality, most students are probably just procrastinating.
So if you’re busy not studying for finals but quickly running out of things to do, here are some ideas:
1. Think about all the studying you have to do
2. Cry
3. Sleep
4. Make yourself a cup of coffee
5. Take a shower
6. Watch an episode of a series on Netflix
7. And then another one
8. And another one
9. Well, you might as well finish the whole season now
10. Clean your room
11. Do laundry
12. Order a pizza
13. Eat the pizza (bonus points if you can finish the whole thing by yourself)
14. Regret eating all that pizza
15. Get over it because pizza is always worth it
16. Go to the gym
17. Check Facebook
18. Refresh Facebook, just in case something new happened in the past 53 seconds
19. Write a letter to your best friend
20. Look at cute pictures of puppies—for six hours
21. Make cookies
22. Watch that “Spongebob” episode where he tries to write an essay but ends up procrastinating for like 14 hours (we can all relate)
23. Organize your closet
24. Get sucked into an Instagram-stalking black hole
25. Accidentally “like” your ex-boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend’s best friend’s Instagram post from 129 weeks ago
26. Have a mini freak-out because, wow, that was so creepy of you
27. Stare blankly out a window
28. Go for a walk
29. Watch a Christmas movie
30. Listen to music
31. Try to figure out how to lick your elbow (nope, still can’t do it)
32. Look up videos of the Peanut Butter Baby
33. Recreate the original video with your friends
34. Take another shower to wash off all that peanut butter
35. Write down all the things you have to do before the end of the semester in your planner
36. Close your planner without actually doing any of them
37. Look at fun craft ideas on Pinterest
38. Call your mom
39. Go through all the old pictures on your phone
40. Do some jumping jacks
41. Write scathing reviews for all your professors on ratemyprofessors.com
42. Wash your walls (walls get dirty too, OK?)
43. Question your sanity
44. Look up how many licks it really takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
45. Text a cute boy
46. Write a short novel
47. Realize that creative writing really isn’t your strong suit and throw that short novel away
48. Eat some popcorn
49. Research the unemployment rate for college dropouts
50. Ponder the meaning of life
51. Repeatedly say the word “ponder” out loud because it sounds really weird
52. Paint your nails
53. Rearrange all the furniture in your room (after you let your nail polish dry)
54. Redo your nails because they weren’t quite dry and you messed them up
55. Go Christmas shopping
56. Plan your wedding
57. Look up the nutrition facts for your favorite Subway sandwich
58. Snapchat really hideous pictures of yourself
59. Learn the choreography for all the dance numbers in "High School Musical"
60. Make a killer video of yourself performing the routines
61. Delete the video and never tell a soul about it because, wow, that was really embarrassing
62. Take a Buzzfeed quiz to figure out which Disney princess you are
63. Watch all the Disney movies you can find illegally online
64. Get addicted to a stupid game on your phone
65. Calculate how high you have to score on the exam to still get an A in the class (258 percent is totally achievable, right?)
66. Run a marathon
67. Just kidding about that whole marathon thing—maybe start out with just running around the block?
68. Make a scrapbook full of pictures of your dog
69. Buy a super cute dress online that you really don’t need
70. Decide that your self-worth is not dependent on your exam scores, and resolve to stop studying altogether
71. Change your mind because you’d actually like to have a decent GPA
72. Try out meditation
73. Braid your hair into an extremely complicated up-do for no reason
74. Come to the conclusion that you should probably start actually studying now
75. Start back at #1 and repeat
