#procrastination tip

As soon as you receive an assignment, get to work. The beginning is the hardest part. Whether it be an outline for an essay, the first question on your maths homework, or texting your lab partner to organize a study meeting. Take 5 minutes, and just begin. This makes it a lot easier later on when you're ready to "start" because you're actually just continuing where you left off.

Sometimes when we have a daunting paper to complete, we tend to procrastinate. I find that once I begin, the words flow easily. The blank page curse. It may feel natural to start from the beginning, but I challenge you instead, to start from the middle. Create a general outline for your paper by writing one rough draft topic sentence for each paragraph, then pick any paragraph you like, and begin! It's much better to start on the part you feel is the most difficult and get it out of the way, or, to banish the blank page curse, start with the easiest, the one you are most knowledgeable about. When you start with the introduction, you are giving an overview of a paper you haven't written yet! This can be a challenge because you may add or remove pieces later, and for many of us, we may not even fully know what our paper is about! How could we possibly introduce it!

Find both of these at the very back of your book where some other helpful information might reside.

Hey! Do you want to procrastinate while also being productive? Then go onto http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ and classify galaxies. Your results are used by astronomers and sometimes you get to see really pretty galaxies (tbh most of the time they are not v pretty blobs)