Procrastination is a disease affecting millions upon millions of college students a year. It can affect people in varied degrees. I, for example, suffer from extreme procrastination disorder; I procrastinate on studying, reading, doing projects, sending text messages, and even writing this article. I have already lost the battle to this vicious disease, but by catching the symptoms early enough, you may be able to defeat this disease before it’s too late.

You may suffer from procrastination if:

  • You don’t even know what your next test is going to be over, but you can recite from heart a Facebook status that you particularly enjoyed.
  • When presented with the options of sleeping 12 hours and getting nothing accomplished and sleeping 8 hours while spending the other four hours writing an important paper, you choose to sleep 12 hours.
  • You realize that you have four different projects due… in one hour.
  • You read class textbooks only two times a year: Midterm week and finals week.
  • You live by the motto, “If I wait until the last minute to do something, that thing will only take me one minute to do.”
  • Your top three viewed websites are Facebook, Twitter, and StumbleUpon.
  • You forget how to log on to Oncourse.
  • You often find yourself too apathetic to respond to text messages.
  • When confronted with Monday tests, you respond by waiting until Sunday to study…but you choose to watch football instead.
  • Doing something in five minutes often translates into doing something in fifty minutes.
  • “Tomorrow” is a code word for “never.”
  • When you finally remember to do something, it’s too late.
  • “All-nighter” is just another word for “sleep.”
  • Despite nothing of importance ever happening on Facebook, you still find yourself checking it every ten minutes while working on a project.
  • You forget to feed your cats, but you don’t forget to look up pictures of cats online throughout the day.
  • You haven’t turned in anything a day early since 2005.
  • You often suffer from negative effects because of your procrastination, but continue to do it.
  • The only thing that you never procrastinate on is procrastinating.

By: Mitchell Potts

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