Fun Ways to Procrastinate: 20 Tips For Putting Things Off

By Abigail Reyes on November 20, 2013

Procrastination – the art of the avoidance of a required task by means of doing anything but that.We all do it, and we can?t help it. And even though college is supposed to help with developing our time management skills, somehow we still find time to waste time. But procrastination isn?t necessarily all bad.

Instead of immediately jumping into an essay, a procrastinator could very well be allowing a swarm of potentially fantastic ideas develop in the brain by giving them time, turning them into much more mature, and even more fantastic ideas to use as soon as one is ready to stop procrastinating. Or maybe you?re procrastinating to protect yourself from something that you?re not ready to do yet. Maybe because you lack the skills, the courage, the experience, or you?re just plain too scared to do it. Either way, procrastination can save you from jumping into whatever you?re not ready for.

Whatever the reason, if you?re going to procrastinate you might as well have fun and enjoy doing it. Here are 20 tips for putting things off without feeling guilty.

1. Order 50 Hawaiian pizzas and have them delivered to your horrible roommate from freshman year.

2. Go to every dining hall on campus and try everything.

3. Get your roommate and draw a mustache on each other?s face, then take selfies.

4. Practice your Tyra Banks catwalk.

5. Master writing with your non-dominant hand.

6.Pretend the floor in your dorm is hot lava: For additional fun, get your roommates to do this with you!

7. Do the Chubby Bunny challenge.

8. Make yourself a homemade cleansing face mask using everything you can find in your fridge.

9. Start a YouTube channel with your roommates.

10. Apply your makeup without a mirror, then go out to dinner.

11. Relax and watch 10 minutes of seal zen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYv3FEeLsgY

12. Write a short poem about anything you?d like to further explore: Such as the mysterious, fresh banana pulp you found smeared outside your dorm this morning.

13. Practice your autograph for when you become famous: It will be worth a lot of money in a couple of years?you never know.

14. Watch YouTube beauty tutorials on how to create the perfect smokey eye (and accidentally end up looking like a panda in the process).

15. Do some Facebook ?research? on people you haven?t talked to since high school to find out who gained weight.

16. Figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop- multiple times.

17. Blow up your friends phone with emojis.

18. Give every person in your dorm hall a secret nickname that only you and your friends know about.

19. Stare out your dorm window until someone sees you and it turns awkward.

20. Paint your nails with fancy designs, and then remove all the polish after deciding it looks dumb.

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