Chances are, much like the majority of your fellow classmates, you procrastinate. We all do it. We find a million and one things to occupy our time, knowing the one thing we must get done is hanging on the back burner. Essay due? Suddenly, your room needs cleaning. Studying for your latest test? Suddenly, you’ve never been in more need of Chipotle, until right now. It’s a never ending cycle, one that is often looked down upon. In reality, procrastination is simply a way to get things done, in the most unorthodox fashion.

 The irony in writing an editorial on procrastination is that it took me a solid three hours to begin, on a good day. I’m not immune to completing an entire list of chores before finishing my homework, which I will go on to stare at for another hour. And yet, it takes a bit of optimism to realize that there is actually no such thing as procrastination. As you avoid walking your dog, you are bound to do something else, something you were meant to do. The key to success is simple: write down an almost unreachable goal; think a twenty-page paper on photosynthesis. Next, write down everything and anything else you actually need to get done below it. Tell yourself to write that paper, tell yourself the world depends on it. Without fail, you will get through the list of what needs to get done in an attempt to procrastinate on that life-changing paper. And that, my friends, is cheating the system.

 Nothing we do is without reason. Every movement we make, every season on Netflix we finish, is a product of procrastination. For the rest of our lives, there will be things to do and ways to avoid them. In turn, we will continue to procrastinate. Someone will procrastinate their homework long enough to create the next big social media outlet; someone else will put off sleep and discover the secret to understanding Calculus (there isn’t one, I’ve tried). The idea of procrastination is one made by our own minds; we don’t procrastinate, we simply change our set schedules. Either way, what needs to get done, gets done…eventually.