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51 Ways To Procrastinate Studying For Finals

Who wants to study when Buzzfeed quizzes exist?

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51 Ways To Procrastinate Studying For Finals
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1. Take BuzzFeed quizzes.

What cookie are you based on your mom’s brother’s girlfriend’s interior design style.

2. Lay on your floor and contemplate life.

How does time work?

3. Watch a dog reunite with owner videos on YouTube

4. Go online shopping.

Start with practical things like clothes and fall slowly into the rabbit hole, ending up purchasing an Australian flag.

5. Take a nap.

6. Look up how to do really simple things like “how to make toast” or “how to put on a pillowcase” just to see what kind of tutorials are out there.

7. Do a facemask. Or two. Or ten.

8. Google Earth your house. Show it to everyone around you. Ask to see their house.

9. Contemplate how long it will actually take you to get your studying done.

10. Go on Facebook and check in on all of your good friends that you haven’t spoken to in nine months.

11. Log some hours on Candy Crush.

12. Revisit your childhood by re-watching every Selena Gomez, Hannah Montana, and Hilary Duff music video.

13. Plan your Halloween costumes for the next five years.

14. Take a shower. Put on a concert in the shower.

15. Build a fort. Decide you don’t like it and tear it down only to rebuild it. Make blueprints for the fort.

16. Use all of your swipes on Tinder.

17. Read all of your junk mail. Get irrationally upset that you missed the sale Abercrombie had two months ago even though you haven’t stepped foot in an Abercrombie in years.

18. Learn the lyrics to Cardi B’s new album.

19. Take Sporcle quizzes.

Which Friends character said what? Words that rhyme with “doug”?

20. Work on your crying on demand skills.

21. Check your bank account. That could help with your crying on demand skills.

22. Plant a tree.

23. Call your parents and dodge all of the questions they ask about your grades.

24. Stalk everyone you’ve ever known on Twitter and Instagram.

25. Write a screenplay.

26. Spend an hour trying to find a Postmates coupon code for free delivery. Order the food without a coupon code.

27. Watch every Snapchat story on the discover page.

28. Browse Craigslist.

29. Plan an expensive vacation that you definitely can’t afford.

30. Make a Spotify playlist for everything you’ve ever done or will do.

A playlist for brushing your teeth? Done. A playlist for when you’re waiting for your ramen to cook? Done. A playlist for when the plane lands in the exotic destination you picked for your vacation? Done.

31. Watch ridiculous makeup tutorials you have no interest in recreating.

32. Make a really pretty list of all the things you need to get done.

33. Look up spoilers to movies and TV shows you’ve always been vaguely interested in but will probably never watch.

34. Shop RedBubble for new laptop stickers.

35. Purge your clothes and sell half your closet on Poshmark.

36. Go on a run. Regret it after ten steps.

37. Go to the grocery store and buy every kind of boxed Mac N Cheese. Conduct experiments to figure out which one is best.

38. Buy rollerblades and teach yourself to rollerblade.

39. Watch documentaries about very obscure things.

A Montana town’s journey to opening their first BBQ place? A classic.

40. Memorize the presidents.

41. Devise a scheme to “casually” run into and consequently fall in love with Timothee Chalamet.

42. Do the same for Harry Styles.

43. Relive your glory days by looking at photos of yourself in middle school. Always good for a laugh.

44. Play M.A.S.H. Plan your future.

45. Shop for dogs on the Humane Society website. Throw care to the wind and adopt one.

46. Make an Instagram and Twitter for your new dog. Develop its social media presence.

47. Give yourself bangs.

48. Photoshop yourself into photos with your favorite celebrities.

49. Investigate what everyone else on your floor is doing. Spend at least ten minutes with each person.

50. Look up really expensive houses on Zillow that you’ll never be able to afford.

51. Take another nap.

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