A Comprehensive Guide to Slacking During Your Final Year Finals.

No time like the present to write this post, I feel. Because. Yknow, slackingdom.

In the middle of my Third Year Finals, I've realised that there are a number of ridiculous things one can go to the extent of doing, instead of studying say, Bourdieu's Habitus and Practice or Research Methodology or Lévi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology or preparing for the JNU entrance test. The following list may have fictional content, I'll leave you to be the judge of that.

1. Google-ing 'curd as conditioner for hair'
2. Going ahead and trying that.
3. Telling your friend on chat that it was indeed effective and that your hair was super soft and shiny. 
4. Texting friends who aren't online about the same. 
5. Remembering songs like 'Beautiful Soul' by Jesse McCartney and 'Too Little Too Late' by JoJo; finding them on YouTube and singing along and realizing that you actually remember all the lyrics.
6. Learning the geographic locations of Western Asian countries. 
7. Finding out how incredibly incredibly majorly wrong you were about the capital city of a particular country and deciding to not ever reveal it to anyone you know. 
8. Watching the trailer of DDLJ a bunch of times.
9. Watching 'The Making Of DDLJ' parts I, II and III on YouTube.
10. Making your friend watch part I of the same when she comes over.
11. Sleeping at 5 AM. Waking up at 11 AM. Sleeping again at 2 PM. Waking up 6 PM. Feeling tired. Lazing around. 
12. Watching episodes from series you've already finished watching but pat yourself on the back by reminding yourself about your brilliantly exercised self-control because you are saving up the entire 'Game of Thrones' series for June, once your exams end because you've heard how it can be addictive.
13. Making a list of songs from Bollywood movies from the 90s that you liked. YouTube-ing them. Then trying to download them.
14. Realizing that you really really don't like Facebook. 
15. Corroborating the above realization by logging in every 10 minutes - but you're signed out on Chat and thereby (not) keeping up appearances and pretending to everyone that you're actually studying. 
16. Stalking old crushes and going through their photographs.
17. Reading all sorts of articles from the links that appear on your feed.
18. When the weather gets great, take photos. Transfer them to your laptop. Upload some on Facebook. Sign out.
19. 10 minutes later, repeat the same because zomg, is that a double rainbow forming?
20. 10 more minutes later, repeat the same because you know, the hues in the sky kept changing. 
21. 10 more minutes later, repeat the same because you went to the other side of the house and saw the skies from a different window.
22. Then you decide to store your camera, your laptop and phone away. Instead, you take your iPod out.
23. Because beautiful weather with a nice breeze calls for some music.
24. Make juice for your family members and you, about 6 times a day. Because it's summer and well, you need  to keep hydrated.
25. Find your friend being messed with on Facebook (friends bringing status updates on your feed from way back when - because face it, back in 2008 we all updated statuses that are embarrassing for us and entertaining for others to read) and post on his wall and start a conversation with those friends. 
26. Go through all the newspapers from the past few weeks and tear out articles that you think are interesting and maybe will be historic to read 20 years from now. 
27. Planning dance-parties at the apartment your friend and you dream of sharing if you both make it to the same University and/or city - leaving aside the fact that you have an inherent incapability of dancing in front of other people, let alone the chances of the apartment-sharing-in-the-same-city scene happening being slim.
28. Google-ing 'travel writing' jobs.
29. Google-ing 'jobs for freshers in the UN'.
30. Google-ing random places to travel to.

A lot of the above could happen to you, so don't judge. Especially if you have a two week gap between two exams. And remember, content may be fictional :)