1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your laptop.

2. Log onto MSN/Yahoo/Gtalk (be sure to go on away!). Check your email.

3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it.

4. Walk down to NCC to pick some fags, to help u concentrate

5. Check your email.

6. Call up a friend and ask if he/she wants to go to grab a coffee. Just to get settled down and ready to work.

7. When you get back, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lit place.

8. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.

9. Check your email.

10. You know, you haven’t written to that chick you met at the school fest since fourth grade. You’d better write that letter now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate.

11. Look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror.

12. Grab some mp3z off of katz/ares/torrentz.

13. Check your email. ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR YET?!

14. Gtalk with one of your friends about the future. (ie summer plans).

15. Check your email.

16. Listen to your new mp3z and download some more.

17. Phone your friend on the other floor and ask if she’s started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your prof, the course, the college, the world at large.

18. Check your email.

19. Check the scores on cricinfo.com

20. Play some solitare (or age of legends! or some good ‘ol CS)

21. Check out orkut.com/facebook.com

22. Look through your friends’ photo albums. Ask who everyone is.

23. Call up a friend to see how much they have done, probably haven’t started either.

24. Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future.

25. Check for any new scraps.

26. Check your email and listen to your new mp3z.

27. You should be rebooting by now, assuming that windows is crashing on schedule.

28. Read over the assignment one more time, just for heck of it.

29. Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the cuties line up outside NCC

30. Lie face down on the floor and moan.

31. Punch the wall and break something.

32. Check your email.

33. Mumble obscenities.

34. 1 hr to deadline: start hacking on the paper without stopping. 6am -paper is finished.

35. Complain to everyone that you didn’t get any sleep because you had to write that stupid paper.

36. Go to class, hand in paper, and leave right away so you can take a nap.

37. If executed properly, then you should manage an A, or a B- if its prof. Mysore. As for the Apte, never try this!