How To Procrastinate:

Step 1. Have a fabulous book that is completely unrelated to what you should be studying. I, for example, am reading Harry Potter (the entire series for perhaps the one hundredth time), and I have heard the Twilight series to be just as effective. Hot vampires are a fabulous distraction. Read it when you should be studying. Read it when you should be sleeping. Then sleep when you should be studying.

Step 2. Fix notes instead of reading them. This is a highly effective method, as it makes you feel like you're being productive, but really you're just doing some copy and paste, a bit of rearranging, some fixing of typos and really just wasting time. Don't forget to change font colour, add some margins and borders and maybe try out some different word-art titles.

Step 3. Watch movies. Movies are fabulous as a 'reward' for studying. Also as a timer - I will start studying when this movie finishes. When it does, put another movie in. You meant the movie after the first movie anyway.

Step 4. Socialize. Make sure on the weekend before your exam, you have plenty of plans. Like going out for lunch. And dinner. And a drive. Every night.

Step 5. Have the internet, with Facebook, Myspace, MSN and a blog. All open at the same time. You're on the computer! It has to be productive!

Step 6. Write To-Do lists. Add things you've already done and cross them off. Make sure you write 'Write a to-do list' as number one on your list. Once you've done task one, you can take a break. Handy.

Step 7. Think of the other insignificant projects you are meant to have done. Like cleaning out your old notes. Or reordering your jewelry. Taking some photos. Painting your toenails. Oh, and finding that old note you wrote to remind you about something that you forgot. That's way more important than study.

Step 8. Write a blog post on how to procrastinate. At 11:30pm at night, when you were going to go to bed early to get up early to study the next morning. Yup. Fail.