Procrastination made fun (and way easy!)

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Procrastination. This week is the perfect time to utilize ones ability to put things off and blow off some steam. There are consequences, but honestly, who wants to spend a whole week studying?
Here’s a few helpful hints on how to master procrastination and do average on your exams.
First off, you need to convince yourself that whatever activity you are participating in that you will study later. After a few movies and trip or two for some food, it becomes easier to believe that you are going to study later.
In reality, no studying is going to take place, which will result in an average exam grade as mentioned before. You need to put things in perspective, however.
For most of us, exam week is the last week of freedom before we go home to spend the holidays with our parents. While seeing your parents is nice and spending the holiday is festive, it’s not the same as living independently, so therefore you need to live it up.
Some of the best ways to avoid studying is to do it in a group. It is often hard to assemble that group, but with a little hard work and a few incentives to those unwilling to participate, you will be on your way to a few hours of quality procrastination.
One sure fire way to procrastinate is the good old five-for-five at Videoland, 1022 S. Mission St. For those of you procrastination rookies out there, five for five allows you to rent five movies (not new releases) for five dollars for five nights. The way to properly procrastinate while using the five-for-five method is to watch all five movies in one sitting. It also helps to use a theme when renting the five for five, like holiday (“A Christmas Story,” “Christmas Vacation,” “Silent Night Deadly Night,” “Home Alone” and “A Muppets Christmas Carol”), slacker (“Slacker,” “Clerks,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Mallrats” and “Clueless”), etc.
Another good group activity is board games, preferably ones that take hours (if not days). Risk and Monopoly are a few good crowd favorites. Like all things in the world of procrastination, all details must be paid attention to while playing these games, which essentially translates into playing them straight through and according to the rules.
If for some reason your skills into luring others into the world of procrastination are poor, there are still many solo activities to partake in. Group or not, five-for-five is still a good way to kill ten hours.
Organizing is another good solo procrastination activity. Start in your room, and then if you still don’t want to study, do another room. The best way to kill time while organizing is to throw everything into huge piles and then arrange them.
Some other good solo activities are playing video games, reading books other than texts, watching “TRL” and, of course, the old standby – sleeping.
Creativity is what procrastination is all about, and it usually is more fun in groups. But like all good things it must come to an end, after we finish this movie of course.