- Spend 10 minutes scouting for the best seat available
- Stand next to the person in the best seat available tutting and sighing loudly until they leave
- Spend five minutes laying out your study materials with painstaking precision
- Text your study buddy letting them know just how bored you are already
- Text your study buddy begging them to save you from the boredom of revision
- Play one level of that highly addictive game on your phone to kill time before your study buddy arrives
- Realise not only that you’ve spent 30 minutes on that highly addictive game, but that your study buddy has arrived and is already on step 3
- Obligatory gossip with study buddy
- Convince yourself you need a book on the opposite side of the library to be able to complete revision
- Get sidetracked while retrieving the book by a fellow group of procrastinating students
- Agree to go out the night before that big exam because that one friend who’s always out promises to buy you Jägerbombs all night
- Plan outfit for night out with study buddy
- Remember that you need fuel in the form of sugary food to complete a successful revision session
- Buy half the student shop’s supply of dairy milk
- Do an online quiz to settle whether you are the Thelma or Louise of your study duo once and for all
- Play a game of would you rather and decide that having having the arms of the gorilla is better than having the legs of a lion
- Curate a personal revision playlist with all the songs that will motivate you to finish the work (that you haven’t started)
- Have a competition with your study buddy to see who can catch more sweets in their mouth
- Convince yourself that to successfully revise you need that other book you maybe saw upstairs that one time
- Complete 5 minutes of study and reward yourself with a ten minute break
- Think about how useful the books in the oversize section of the library would be to make a book igloo
- Devise plan with study buddy to one day create said book igloo
- Compete in the national study buddy swivel chair sprint with fellow group of procrastinating students
- Obligatory argument over the correct rules of the national study buddy swivel chair sprint
- Spend five minutes trying to get pen to start working
- Steal a pen from unsuspecting student who has left pen unattended*
- Have competition with study buddy to see who can steal more unattended pens than the other*
- Google how long it would take to walk to Prague (10 days if you’re wondering)
- Throw stolen pens at that one friend that has completed more work than you have
- Play a game of tag in the silent section
- Play a game of pacman with fellow group of procrastinating students
- Decide that life is short and book igloos deserve to be built
- Google the best method for building an igloo
- Slowly steal books from the oversize book section over the course of two hours
- Find quiet corner to construct book igloo
- Decide life is short but the prospect of being kicked out of the library outweighs the glory of being the person to construct epic book igloo
- Abandon half constructed book igloo in quiet corner
- Tut loudly and complain about people taking up space in the library not doing work as you swiftly gather up your clutter and exit
- Realise you’ve been studying for the wrong module for the last few hours
- Give up and decide to go to bed
*Please note I do not condone the stealing of pens from unsuspecting students, they may, in fact, be fairly attached to the pens they are using
[…] That being said, I’m super disorganised and will probably end up leaving the assignment until last minute. What can I say? I’m a chronic procrastinator. […]
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