The art of procrastination

You learn a lot of things when you go to college. There is the lecture material, of course, and if you're lucky you learn some skills like making strong arguments and writing good papers. You learn your alcohol intake limit, you learn just how little sleep you can survive on, you learn how to play a LOT of video games. And you learn to procrastinate.

Boy oh boy, you learn to procrastinate.

They really try to teach you when you are younger not to put things off to the last minute, but all of that goes out the window when you get to college. You know what feels good? Getting your paper done well, with plenty of time before it's due. You know what feels better? Not doing your paper, and going to that party instead. Or if you're lame like me and don't even like parties, watching the world series is way better. Or writing in your blog. Or cleaning your room. Or doing the dishes. Or doing your laundry.

College students can become oddly productive in other areas when there is a looming assignment in question.

Procrastination is a hundred times worse in college than it was in high school for three main reasons:
1. No parents to yell at you
2. Harder classes with harder, longer assignments
3. About a hundred more distractions

I'm not a student that you have to worry about with this sort of thing; I start my papers pretty early (compared to most students in my classes), I get good grades. But some nights I will find any excuse to not get something done.

I have a Latin quiz tomorrow and it is going to be hard; I have been struggling with the material for the last two weeks. I have been dedicating time to it, I've talked to classmates, I have been to office hours with my professor, and I've made notecards. But now it is down to the final moments and I absolutely have to get it done.

But the World Series is on and all I want to do is watch baseball.