How to perfect procrastination

There is nothing more daunting or unattractive as writing an essay, preparing for a presentation or revising for the end of year exams. So why not take a look at how better to spend your time by finding out how to perfect your procrastination!

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Food

An important part of every student’s timetable – dinner time. Why not procrastinate and cook for your housemates or learn how to scramble up a gourmet meal?

Or if you’re not that creative, just grab a bar of chocolate or a packet of crisps and eat away those sorrows.

I will eat them all before I look at another page of French grammar!

 

Online stalking

Stalk to your heart’s content and don’t be ashamed. As long as you don’t do it in the library where your current victim may actually see what you’re doing, stalking is a great way to spend your time rather than researching an essay topic.

Who knew that the nerdy girl from school would be pregnant with her third child, all with a different dad? Or that Mr Rugby Lad has just been made President of the Dragonslayers?

You’ll learn more about your friends’ lives in an hour than you will on Henry VIII’s, no matter how many books you read on him.

Facebook Fights

Facebook in itself is procrastination but you know it’s bad when you keep refreshing the page for updates. Still, the best thing about Facebook has to be the ‘fight’.

Scrolling down through the same old stuff of Instagram or ‘my-finished-dissertation-wooo’ photos and then suddenly you see a post with 100+ comments and Capslock has already been activated. Let the entertainment begin.

Ooo… the claws are out, let me grab some popcorn!

Clean

Everyone hates living in squalor, but even worse than that is cleaning. Yet, when it comes to the final semester, even cleaning your room seems more appealing.

After you realise that you have spent a couple of hours tidying your humble abode which included hovering, dusting and even folding your underwear, that’s when you know you’re a decent procrastinator.

It can’t just be me who let’s my room get into this state…

That’s better!

The World

The World Wide Web is full of things to do when you want to procrastinate and you don’t have to go far to find it! Google earth is a great way to do a bit of geography related study.

See if you can find your house, plan an around the world trip by choosing where you’d most want to visit or see if there are any towns named like rude words.

Learn a language

Go onto Google translate and learn sentences in different languages or just laugh at the different voices of the people doing translations.

Type in ‘……..’ and translate from Japanese to English. And no it wasn’t me who discovered this, it was another procrastinator who’s seriously good at playing the game!

Social stuff

Sticking with the internet (you don’t want to socialise with the outside world when they all think you’re amazing because you’re revising), read blogs or even read the Tab.

Even better than that, a real procrastinator would write for the Tab. Procrastination and something that’ll look good on the CV; definitely more exciting than learning about the 95 theses by Luther.

Do something your other half wants but never gets.

Challenge your boyfriend to a game of Fifa or go to the pub to ‘watch the big game’. Take your girlfriend for a shop around the town or take her to a swanky cocktail bar.

I’m sure they’ll really appreciate and understand that you value your relationship so much … And not pick up on the fact you’d rather do these unbearable things than learn some mathematical equations.

Treat yourself to a much needed night out… after a long day in of doing nothing

Just go to bed

Sleeping is so much better than working and it rests your body and mind so you’ll be fresh for more procrastination tomorrow!