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So, my buddy Mark looked at me. His eyes filled with earnest pain, his soul rife with apathy. “How am I actually going to do all of this schoolwork when there are these games I have to play?”
The problem is that fall finals are right around the corner, and game companies make excellent adventures that are much cooler than chemistry or stupid English books full of other books with no pictures or explosions. Students are forced to choose between math and CoD: BO, and it has terrible outcomes.
This is a problem striking thousands of students. RIGHT. NOW. It’s worse than Four Loko.
Mark and I stopped looking into each others’ souls, because that was pretty invasive. I told him these truths.
Don’t try and only play “one more” with yourself: Guess what? One more turned into twelve, and then you beat yourself for having no self-control. No good self-help starts by beating yourself up. If you know that being in the same room as your television is going to cause you to watch or play something on it, go somewhere else without the distraction. It could even be the next room or a coffee house. It’s like an drug addict keeping meth around his or her house and somehow falling back into the same patterns. It’s a pretty easy fix.
Play as long as you want: Just be ready to work with less time. Most people run off of the stress of only having an hour to turn in the paper before the class. Use that energy. Stop beating yourself up about waiting until the last day; you were going to do that anyway. Allow yourself the time right before, plan to clear that out, and go insane like a man possessed. Take control of your behavior; you know how you work. Allow yourself to do what you need. Plus, if you go your whole academic life without an all-nighter, then you are missing out, friend.
Try studying something that is more fun than video games: Crazy idea, but looking for work that you actually want to do is going to help that whole motivation thing get off the ground.