Are you ever stuck staring at the ridiculous amount of clothes that somehow got onto your floor? You just cleaned your room last week (you swear!). Here is a guide on how to clean your room (college student style).

1. Finally, after a week of listening to your mom or dad repeat the same thing over to you, you acknowledge that it's time to clean your room. You do so by telling anyone who asks what you’re doing that you’re cleaning your room. It can’t be that bad, right?
2. Next, you make your way up the stairs, probably missing a step or two, because your eyes are glued to your social media feed. You are attempting to get your hourly fill because you will be spending (or at least saying you are) the next few hours cleaning and reorganizing your room.
3. Next, you open the door (with a quick peak up and down the hall to ensure no passer biers can see your “it’s kind of messy” room) and survey the damage. Six baskets of laundry to fold (but three are totally empty because the clothes are littering your bedroom floor), your desk is a mess, and you swear you saw your missing childhood dog buried in a pile of miscellaneous stuff on the left.
4. Pep talk—don’t worry, think of a plan in your head to finally tackle this mess! (No, shoving everything in your closet isn’t an option because that’s what you did last time.) Deep down you aspire to be an organized person, so why not start today?
5. With this new attitude, you pick a spot to sit in the middle of the floor. You observe your surroundings and begin to sort clothes into various piles. Slowly but surly the carpet resurfaces.
6. Your hard work earns you a break! Take this time to check social media one more time. (Just in case anything important happened in the last ten minutes!)
7. You realize somehow you have migrated towards the bed, probably laying on clothes strewn aside as they didn’t make this week’s outfit cut. Five minutes slowly turns into five hours.
8. Next, your spine will tense up as you hear the footsteps of your parents coming up the stairs to check on your progress. You will dive onto the floor to where you’d left off just five minutes ago and act as though you’ve been working seamlessly.
9. Finally, repeat until you have a clean room.