In my efforts to study for finals, I have done a great deal of procrastinating. For the past couple of days, I have done everything in my power to avoid studying. I obviously really don't like to study. In this procrastination, I have discovered many new funny things, especially on the internet. I also came up with a new theory of humor - when we are tired and stressed, EVERYTHING seems much funnier. I laughed at things that I probably would never have laughed at if I wasn't wasting away my precious studying hours.
I discovered that the TV show How I Met Your Mother is quite comical. I have watched it before, but never straight from the beginning, so I was missing the entire premise of the TV show. I now understand why it is called How I Met Your Mother, and it now makes sense. Anyways, it is quite possible that it one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. I wasted a lot of study time watching this show on Netflix (oops). Netflix is a solid time waster, and you don't realize how much time you are spending until it's suddenly 6 hours later and yeah, you've laughed a lot but you haven't accomplished anything. Not that that has every happened to me or anything...
I also thoroughly enjoy looking through Tumblr and seeing all of the "gifs" that the Tumblr bloggers create. They are fantastic, and really make me laugh. They are about things that most college students experience, but incorporate tiny clips of a funny animal video, or a movie or TV show. Here is a couple examples from one of the blogs:
http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/49455682720/trying-to-motivate-myself-to-study-for-my-last-final
http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/49320719311/as-soon-as-i-get-home-from-work-school
These go on for pages and pages, and there are multiple Tumblrs, so there goes another 2 or 3 hours. Whoops again. I always intend these uses of Netflix and Tumblr as a tiny little study break that usually ends up lasting the rest of the day. But I'm laughing, so it's all okay right? The humor distracts from the fact that I am getting absolutely NOTHING accomplished.
No worries y'all, I am now finally getting my finals preparations accomplished instead of procrastinating. I had to leave my apartment in order to get stuff done, but it is finally happening.
Good luck on finals!
So true. I have definitely been putting off studying for too long and I don't think this post is going to help with my future study habits. Thanks for distracting me even further, and good luck with your studies.
ReplyDeleteLauren,
ReplyDeleteYour new humor theory hit the nail on the head. I have been having the same problem ever since dead days started. I think procrastination has really come to an art amongst college students, especially with Netflix, Tumbler, and Youtube constantly sucking away all our study time. Good luck with all your finals.
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteYou have great supporting points for your theory. I think you could move it on past the theory stage to whatever proven stage comes next. Like the title of your blog, you may be procrastinating but you're not wasting time because you're laughing. Good luck with finals!