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May 31, 2016

How To Tell If You're Watching Too Much Netflix

Everyone knows a college kid's best friend is Netflix. It's there for you when you have a test to study for, when you wake up after a night of partying or when you want to tell your mom you're just hanging out with "Friends." However, how do you know when your Netflix binge has gone on for too long? There's a few key signs of a serious case of too much Netflix:

1. You start making excuses for why you can't meet up with your friends.

When your friends ask you if you want to meet up to play frisbee or go to the dining hall, you suddenly have an emergency you have to attend to. Little do they know, the emergency is in season two, episode five of "Grey's Anatomy."

2. Your dinners suddenly grow less and less in nutrition values.

Soon enough, your most nutritious meal is ramen noodles served over a bed of Doritos.

3. Your roommate even stops asking if you went to class.

The answer is going to be, "No, but I thought about it," every time.

4. Your exercise for the day now consists of hitting "next episode."

Next thing you know, your finger's biceps have biceps, and you're suddenly a pro at thumb wrestling.

5. The Domino’s delivery guy knows your name and your usual order.

If this goes on for too long, next thing you know there's going to be a knock on your door at 10 p.m. on Friday from a guy holding a medium pepperoni with a side of cheesy bread saying, "Same time next week, Megan?"

6. You've left a butt imprint on your seat.

After 12 hours straight of watching "How I Met Your Mother," and the other 12 hours spent trying to get up, you've made your own imprint on the Netflix walk of fame.

7. When you're not watching Netflix, you're taking BuzzFeed quizzes.

Your new form of studying includes watching TV series so you can ace the new BuzzFeed quizzes on them.

8. You find yourself quoting your favorite shows.

While everyone is packing all of their stuff from their dorms, you will be yelling "Pivot!" from your window.

9. The only time you text your siblings now is to tell them to get off Netflix so you can continue watching your show.

10. The cheese dust won’t come off your fingers from all the cheese doodles you’ve eaten.

You resolve to tell your friends that you just got a bad spray tan, not that you finished all four seasons of "Arrested Development" in one week.

However, is there even such a thing as too much Netflix? As a college student, it is your duty to procrastinate studying by watching ridiculous TV shows. What else are you going to do in your free time? Do homework? Exercise? No, you are going to sit back down because Momma didn't raise no quitter, and you have a Netflix binge to finish!

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Momma didn't raise no quitter.

1. You start making excuses for why you can't meet up with your friends.

2. Your dinners suddenly grow less and less in nutrition values.

3. Your roommate even stops asking if you went to class.

4. Your exercise for the day now consists of hitting "next episode."

5. The Domino’s delivery guy knows your name and your usual order.

6. You've left a butt imprint on your seat.

7. When you're not watching Netflix, you're taking BuzzFeed quizzes.

8. You find yourself quoting your favorite shows.

9. The only time you text your siblings now is to tell them to get off Netflix so you can continue watching your show.

10. The cheese dust won’t come off your fingers from all the cheese doodles you’ve eaten.

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1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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1. You feel like an elder.

2. You may feel lonely.

3. Senioritis is more real than ever.

4. You may feel a little down sometimes.

5. Fear of missing out won't be as real.

6. You are a college pro.

7. You'll have more free time.

8. You're happy you're still in school.

9. You feel like a guru.

10. You continue to grow.

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