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7 Reasons Why You Need Procrastination

Binge-watching Netflix isn't going to happen on its own.

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It's Sunday night, everything you have to do for this week is bouncing around your head and with finals coming up, your plate is fuller than the one your mashed potatoes were dripping off of on Thanksgiving. You power on your laptop and you're ready to get serious -- but not before you check Facebook. And Twitter. And Pinterest. Five hours later and you're watching Disney makeup tutorials on YouTube.

Seven reasons why you need procrastination.

1. Current events are important. If you didn't spend four hours scrolling through your ex's page, how else would you know that the girl he's dating most definitely had it out for you from the very first like on his status? No one is just going to tell you these important headlines, you have to give yourself carpal tunnel from repetitive scrolling first.

2. Your eyebrows will never look better than after you've watched two tutorials on how to shape them and four different techniques on filling them in. Who can really study when they have massive bushy eyebrows blocking the view?

3. There is no better time to clean your apartment than when you should be writing your 8-page paper that's due tomorrow. Everyone else is studying and you have five uninterrupted hours to yourself? Perfect.

4. Procrastinating saves you money. You really can't afford to buy new underwear for the third time this month and your jeans have officially stretched beyond being wearable. Besides, laundry really doesn't take that long. You can totally be productive while the machines are running. Do useful things, like homework (or nap, whichever).

5. You challenge yourself. I have 30 minutes to finish my thesis? Pfffft. No problem. I just have 15 pages to go. That's basically two minutes per page, I can do this. Call Guinness, we're breaking records today.


6. You need your rest. You were out every night this weekend and you lost out on almost two days worth of sleep. This is the perfect opportunity to catch up and make sure you are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the week. You're really doing your professor a favor -- one less assignment to grade and one more well-rested student.


7. Netflix needs you. If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound? If Netflix adds new episodes of " Grey's Anatomy" and no one is there to stream it, did it lag? How will we know if they pushed one of EPI?! Where's my scrub cap?!


You need procrastination like you need oxygen. But maybe we should start calling it time management because Yes, Mom, I'm being responsible, I am 20 years old. *hyperventilates*


(Note: These reasons may not fool everyone else, but if you can fool yourself -- Welcome to the best afternoon of the week, my friend)

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