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How (NOT) to Study

A Timeline of my Procrastination

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How (NOT) to Study
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With midterms upon us the stress and pressure of college life is once again upon us and with the start of spring break only a short week away it makes attempting to study for midterms even more difficult. This week i set aside an evening to get some serious studing done, and this is how it went....

4:00PM- Set out notebooks, textbooks, study notes and blank flashcards

4:30PM- realize I won’t be able to properly study without some snacks

4:45PM- I drive to the mini-mart and purchase Mountain Dew and Cheese Puffs

5:00 PM- Return from store and consume study snacks

5:15PM- Realize my hands are covered in cheese dust and I need to wash my hands in the bathroom so I don’t get my notes all cheesy

5:30PM- While washing my hands realize how spotty the bathroom merrier is

5:45PM- Clean the bathroom mirror, then realize how dirty the rest of the bathroom now looks in comparison to the super clean mirror

6:00PM- 9:00PM After I cleaned the entire bathroom I decided I might as well clean the rest of my apartment since I have all of my cleaning supplies out.

9:15 PM I look at the clock and realize how late it is already. I need to start to study.

9:20PM- 1:00AM Decided to turn the TV on for some background noise while studying. Crack textbook open, end up only paying attention to Netflix for several hours

1:15AM- Finish an entire season of some stupid show. Realize once again how late it is and that I still haven’t started studying

1:30 AM spend several minutes freaking out at how little time I now have left to study

2:00AM Decide I’m too tired to have any meaningful studying done at this hour

2:30AM Lay in bed staring at celling wondering how I wasted so much time not studying

5:00AM – Startled awake by a bad dream about failing a midterm because I didn’t study

5:15 AM- Make and drink four cups of coffee

5:30AM- Decide to once again attempt studying

5:45AM- realize my cat is fast asleep on my closed textbook

6:00 AM- Take several picture cute pictures of cute cat sleeping on assignments and send them on snapchat

6:30AM Decide you’ll apologize to the cat and push her off your books

7:00 AM decide to drive to school to get some studying done

7:30 AM Stop at Dunkin Donuts and get an extra-large French-vanilla iced-coffee

8:00 AM- Get to school and decide to check e-mail before I start studying

8:15 AM Read an email from the professor reminding us that this midterm has been postponed until after spring break

8:16AM- Smile

8:30 AM drive back home to go back to bed

4:00 PM remember you have several other midterms that are still this week. I get out my no0tebooks and textbooks and index cards

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