Netflix. It’s a staple of the college experience. Heck, even if you aren’t in college, it’s still a great place to spend your $8.99 per month. However, it holds an exceptionally special place in the hearts of college students everywhere for one reason: as a perfect procrastination outlet with a low price. As a college student, I can say the one thing that comes second to free is cheap. We all procrastinate—I know I’m not the only one—and there are many methods available to us, but Netflix trumps them all.
At the end of the summer, college students everywhere are heading back their college campuses. At first it seems exciting, some of the plusses are getting together with all your friends, no parental supervision and, of course, football! But one thing will surely be making less of an appearance in your regular routine: Netflix.
It’s the first week of classes. Usually this means syllabus week, which equals no work. But then there’s that one professor with a 0.5 star rating on Rate My Professor that gives you an assignment due by the end of the week. You want to go home and finish watching the new season of Orange is the New Black, but you know what you have to do.
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Sadly, it doesn’t get any better from there. The next week you have meetings almost every night with new organizations and clubs you’re interested in joining. You probably have time for half an hour of Netflix, but who can catch up on Scandal in that amount of time?
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Time definitely flew by fast, and somehow it is already time for your first exam of the semester. You think you might be able to study and watch The Vampire Diaries at the same time. But it’s impossible to focus on anything else the way that show keeps you on your toes!
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You’ve managed to make it to the middle of the semester without pulling out all of your hair follicles, but the possibility is still there. Midterms are coming up but you’re distracted by the always up-in-the-air outcome of Chuck and Blair’s relationship on Gossip Girl.
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Midterms are over! You didn’t let the uncertainty of your favorite characters’ relationship get you too down. Now it’s time for a reward. Netflix!
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Celebration session has ended and you finally have to go back to work. But, you just NEED to know how what happens next with Jim and Pam on The Office. You might have an extensive assignment due the next day, but you’re only going to watch one more episode, right? Right?
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“Wrong” is the answer. You watch more episodes than you can count on your two hands and now you still have 60% left of the assignment to complete and it’s already 3 AM.
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That didn’t turn out so great. Your grade was less than tremendous and you know why. You try to convince yourself that maybe you need to watch Netflix a little less and study a little more.
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LOL who were you kidding? Netflix = life. Now back to How to Get Away with Murder.
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Now it’s time for finals. You know you can do this. You may not be able to watch as much of One Tree Hill as you’d hoped, but successful multitasking is a must around this time of the year.
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Congratulations, you passed! Now you can go home, relax and finally finish Lost without any regrets. Until next semester, that is, when the cycle starts all over again.
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