Sunday Not-So-Funday

It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re just waking up from a very long Saturday night. You wake up just in time to eat breakfast at 1pm and then it’s time for some good old Sunday fun activities.

But wait- you just remembered you have that three page paper due tomorrow for art history! Your Sunday Funday plans with friends just got ruined. What are you going to do!?

Luckily you have a college veteran on your side.  I can walk you through exactly what you can do to if you should find yourself in this position.

Drink caffeine immediately. Normally, I wouldn’t suggest dehydrating your body after a long night of debauchery, but this is an exception. You need to get yourself in the paper-writing mood, and you can’t focus on your paper if you are tired or lazy. Caffeine is a great way to give you that extra boost of energy you need to get started on your schoolwork. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll be done. If you’re sensitive to caffeine, do something active for 10-15 minutes. Going on a quick run or even a walk in the sunshine is enough to shake you out of a slump.

Study Outside. The sun is finally coming out, the snow is melting, and it’s almost nice outside. If your friends are going to be rambunctious inside, then move your schoolwork outside! The fresh air is exactly what you need to clear your mind and focus on that paper. Grab some shades, a light jacket, and soak up some sun while you study in peace. If you don’t have a laptop, don’t have Wi-Fi, and don’t have a place right outside your house that you can study, then you have thought of every excuse in the book and can comment on this blog to share more of your fabulous excuses with the rest of us.

Don’t Complain. Seriously. You got yourself into this position; you can get yourself out of it. Keep your complaints to yourself and just do the paper. The more time you waste complaining to your friends about how you are “so tired” or how you hate your professor, the less time you will have to actually write the paper. The last thing your friends want to do is hang around with Buzz Killington. (This option of dealing with unexpected homework is not the most fun, but it is the most valuable to personal growth and becoming a mature adult.)

You have to do your homework at some time or another, and most of us like to procrastinate. This isn’t always a bad thing. (Some of my best papers were a result of intensive research done during a short period of time.) However, don’t make a habit of procrastinating and don’t put yourself in a position to choose between your friends and your schoolwork on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Most of the time, your friends will win and your grades will end up the loser.

3 Excuses to Get Out Of Anything

I don’t have enough time in my day to do everything. Should I go workout or go study? Decision made. I’m playing Mario Kart.

Do you ever have too much to do so you just decide to give up and not do anything? Don’t worry- we’ve all been there. Here are some excuses we’ve devised to get you out of doing anything for the rest of your life.

“I’m sick” Teachers say this at the beginning of every single year: “If your sick, just don’t come to class because you’ll get everyone else sick”. It’s true. One person in my 75-person lecture was coughing like crazy and the next time we met for lecture only 25 people showed up because they were all sick. The easiest way to not go to class is to be sick.

“I forgot” Who cares if it was your only job interview in the last five months? You forgot. It’s fine- we’ve all forgotten something at one point in time. Your would-be-future-employer doesn’t care if you’re on time for your interview anyways. Simply tell them, “oops, I forgot”. The easiest way to not get a second interview is to tell people that you really don’t care how valuable their time is.

“That goes against my New Year’s resolution” This is the mother of all excuses that never fails. Go ahead- tell someone that your New Year’s resolution was to gain 15 lbs. They won’t question you when you eat the entire lasagna that your mom sent you that was supposed to last you a week. (We don’t know anyone who did that)

Next time you’re sitting at home on your throne of lies and don’t want to do any thing, make sure to pull out one of these foolproof excuses and watch your free time multiply.

If you have any other good excuses, please feel free to leave them below. Our social media manager needs some new material.