Freshman Dan Bailey told the story of how he never touched the novel he was supposed to read for his Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. But he kept putting it off and literally hadn't even touched the book the morning of the exam. I wrote the most b.s. But I got an A. People that had read the book twice got Bs and Cs. Although procrastination can be semi-harmful, it can also be entertaining.
Students do funny, absurd and embarrassing things to avoid work.
A quick Internet search revealed 21 websites devoted entirely to providing material used to delay doing productive work. My personal favorite was the Fantastic Typing CyberMonkey, a page that contained only a digital monkey pounding on a keyboard. However, you don't have to look that far to find strange methods of dawdling. Unbelievably, when asked about their strange procrastination habits, several of my friends mentioned taking recreational bowel movements as a way to kill time. Also high on their lists were exploring Greencastle, checking for mites and trying to figure out the mathematical term pi.