Wednesday, April 23, 2014

How to procrastinate

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

Here at my university, we are busy writing semester tests. It's equivalent to a mini exam. It helps us to scrape together the little marks, we already have and helps to lift our participation mark for exams. But I am very good at procrastinating, so I decided to compile a list of things, which I and many other do, while procrastinating.

This is us, procrastinating....
My procrastinating list:

  • Your room is always exceptionally clean. (The dishes get washed immediately and the floors are scrubbed.)
  • You are up to date with all your series.  (Game of Thrones, Pretty Little Liars, Reign and Dexter are my faves.)
  • ALL your social media profiles are up to date. (Regular posts are made on each profile)
  • You have regular visits with all your friends. (This is easy for me, because I stay in a dormitory.)
  • Your parents know you are alive. (You phone them everyday to procrastinate just a little more.)
  • You are there when the dining hall opens. (You run for food and the 15min break away from work.)
  • Having songs in your head and then ending up on Youtube to watch it. (Two hours later you are still on youtube.)
  • A shower becomes an outing. (You get excited to go and shower and absolutely take your time.)
  • When procrastinating, one takes at least 2 naps.... each hour... (When I should study, I get so tired and take at least 2 naps a day.)
  • You count all the dots or groves on your ceiling. (Ours is not exciting, 'cause it only has 17 groves...)
  • Taking out your trash also becomes fun. (When you were little you hated it, now you take out the trash even if there is only one paper in.)

While procrastinating, just remember that you are extremely privileged to study and only 3% of the population is able to study and never let it get out of hand like this:

"It's gotten to the point, where I can't even call it 'procrastination' anymore,
I should just call it 'jeoparadizing my future'"



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