Chronic procrastination is a deadly disease for students’ grades all across the country, but let’s face it, you are probably going to do it anyways, so you might as well make it fun. If every other night you seem to be drowning in homework from classes, then you most likely suffer from chronic procrastination. This disorder causes students to completely ignore the fact that they have heaping amounts of schoolwork they need to do and plenty of other pointless tasks to occupy their time instead. This ignorance inevitably leads to many late nights completing homework as well as an overload of grey-hair-inducing stress. I speak on this from experience as I myself, suffer from chronic procrastination. However, nothing I say is going to cure you of this disease because, for the most part, it is incurable. So, because there is no way to avoid it, here are some of the most effective ways to procrastinate on all that homework you do not want to do!

First of all, the key to effective procrastination is to find something that really makes you zone out and ignore that 1,000 word final essay that will take you hours to write. The best way to distract yourself is to have your phone handy while you sit down to do that dreaded assignment. Odds are, you will open up the phone to something interesting and far-less important like Twitter or other social medias. These procrastination traps on your phone will keep you occupied for hours on end.

In fact, the internet in general has a multitude of great places to procrastinate your assignment away outside of social media! One of these places is the website procatinator.com; this website’s sole purpose of creation is to help you procrastinate by posting funny gifs and pictures of cats. That’s right, cats. And boy does it succeed in its purpose. You can enter that website and in the blink of an eye you are whisked away on a procrastination trip that will undoubtedly result in the incompletion of your homework. Social media and procatinator are certainly not your only ways of procrastination available on the World Wide Web, so spend time on your own trying to find a website to waste your time on.

Sometimes, for very large tasks you need to not do, you’ll need a complex way to procrastinate. Often times these routines require multiple steps so you may want to tackle this with a well-written and thought out plan. Just doing this will waste away a generous amount of time! A model technique to use is the “I’m hungry and dirty” move. This ageless classic requires you to make yourself a meal and eat it. Then, you clean up after yourself. Once this is completed, your best option is to declare that you are really dirty, even if you are not, and take a long shower and take a long time to get dressed again. If pulled off to perfection, this technique can waste away hours on end and lead you on late enough into the night to convince yourself that a good night’s sleep is more important than that assignment you didn’t do, after all, it is scientifically proven that teenagers need at least eight hours of sleep for optimal health. These simple, unnecessary tasks are some of the top ways to waste time and still convince your parents that you are being productive. However, a lot of times these complex routines stand no match for the simple age-old classic of listening to music and staring off into space.

Although it is never your absolute best option in school, you are going to procrastinate anyway, so why make it boring? You can deal with all that stress and homework a different day, like the night before it’s due. Procrastinate on.