Eating is one of many popular means of distracting oneself from scholastic responsibilities, along with surfing the Internet and watching television.
I find that as midterms draw near, my apathy increases exponentially. Most days I am too busy to think straight, which is my pathetic way of justifying all the alternative activities that I find myself engaged in when I should be studying.
I eat. A lot. Significantly more than any woman ever should. But when I am tired, grumpy, or feeling unmotivated, nothing gets me going quite like leftovers from dinner or stale cake. It is unhealthy and unnecessary, but it happens and I happily own up to it.
I also play on the Internet. I have spoken of this before, but I cannot stress to you how lost I get surfing the World Wide Web. I start on Pinterest and soon lose myself in articles about shiny hair, blogs on how to turn pallets into birdfeeders and inappropriate Youtube videos. By the time I realize my allotted Internet time is long gone, I have wasted too much time to even try and get back on track, so I continue educating myself on the latest fashion and the health of my nail beds.
My most ingenious technique involves Netflix. I have somehow, through an irrational corn maze of laziness and apathy toward relevant knowledge, convinced myself that by watching a documentary about the Salem witch trials or the construction of the pyramids I am still getting smarter. It is not necessarily about what I will be tested over, but I am becoming more intelligent. Logically, this is extraordinarily unhelpful when I should be doing Spanish homework, but in my odd little mind it makes perfect sense and I am a treasure trove of useless trivia.
So my fellow apathetic collegians fear not, for as lazy and unmotivated as you feel, rest assured that there is someone far worse than you: me. However, if you are running out of creative and interesting ways to amuse yourself when homework is just not seeming like the most whimsical choice, I highly recommend you try any one of my aforementioned bad habits. Or try a combination of two of them! The Netflix thing has honestly filled hours of my life with useless, though no less enjoyable, information.
Do not be ashamed of your apathy, embrace it and use it as an excuse to learn other cool and interesting things that you otherwise would not.
