10:15- Finally convince yourself to get out of bed
10:20- Rummage for food
10:40- Get ready to spend a glorious day indoors in the library with 100 of other people suffering to write papers as well.
11:15- Meet friend to go to library
11:30- Arrive at library
11:45- Grab food to keep you awake and to munch on
12:00 - Look for a seat to set up camp
13:05- Grumble that someone is sitting on "your" couch that you always occupy and monopolize
13:15- Everything is finally set up for you to start working!
13:16- Get on facebook
14:00- Realize facebook is sucking your life away
14:01- Check email
14:03- Grumble that your professors sent you MORE reading... like you didn't have enough already
14:05- Get on facebook
14:06 Get off facebook and scold yourself
14:07- Stare around the room to see if anyone else is procrastinating like you are
14:10- Open a book
14:20- Talk to friend who just walked in the room
14:30- Silently panic because they're talking for too long and ruining the roll you had been on with researching
14:35- Pick up the same book you had before and pretend to be trying to get back to reading so they will hopefully get the point
14:40- Finally start concentrating on research again and force yourself to at least read a page before getting distracted again.
15:15- Feel slightly accomplished
15:16- Facebook
15:23- Hunt down books. Curse whoever has taken out the books you needed. Your research is more important.
15:35- Force yourself to do more research so you don't have to carry the 9 very large and heavy books you just found all the way back home
16:30- Glare at the person loudly whispering
16:31- Read more
16:32- Wonder when you have ever read this much in your entire life
16:45- Think of ways to murder the random man who won't stop sniffling obnoxiously and wonder why he hasn't gotten a tissue after incessantly sniffing for an hour.
16:50- Work!
17:05- Realize you've read the same paragraph 3 times and you have no idea what it said.
17:10- Dinner!
18:00- Stare at the computer willing your paper to write itself
18:10- Still staring
18:11-Mentally hate everyone leaving the library bragging about how much they got done
18:17- Facebook... yet again
18:18- Get offended that not a single person is online and you have zero notifications to distract you
18:20- Begrudingly decide to start paper
18:22- Stare at screen and realize you have no idea where to start
19:00- Congratulations, you finished writing the bibliography instead of working on the actual paper
19:20- After writing 3 sentences, you decide to take a walk to try and wake up and regain some sanity
19:25- Do anything but work: hum to yourself, drum on your desk, day dream, play with pens, check email, etc
19:35- Work
20:00- After 8 hours straight in the library you question your sanity
20:05- Realize you're making odd noise reactions to everything that is frustrating you about your paper and life in general and people are starting to wonder where the noises are coming from
20:06- Stare absentmindedly into space.
20:15- Realize that you've been staring at someone like a crazed person and are making them feel uncomfortable
20:16- Look yearningly out the window wishing you had done more work
21:00- HOW IS IT THIS LATE ALREADY?
22:00- Refuse to concede to the fact that you're brain has slowly turned to mush and has recently gone on strike and then go back to work.
22:30- Decide banging your head on the table will not help brain function.
22:40- Halfway through your paper. OH YEAH!
22:35- Doodle
23:00- Give death stare to loud person who just walked in.
23:45- Look at person who works in the library like they're insane. "WHY are you kicking me out? What do you mean the library is closing? I live here damn it."
23:59- Walk home looking and feeling like a zombie.
My point? Prolonged periods in the library affect a student's sanity.
(I do not own these two pictures)
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