A frustrated rant by a procrastinating student trying to study, but too tempted by the Internet.
The World Wide Web is truly an intricate web which entraps everyone into it with offers of companionship, entertainment or services. It is truly very frustrating when you pick up your phone for one purpose but end up going through your Facebook, Instagram, Tinder and somehow ordering food online which you don’t even feel like eating.
The concept of time and space all fades away when you are on the internet. It feels like being sucked inside a black hole and you need to mentally berate yourself to get out of it. I have been buying books I don’t have money for, creating wish lists of TV series that I am going to watch this summer and looking at Spongebob memes instead of actually utilizing that time to study the complicated theories in my textbook.
This has been counter-productive and heightened my feelings of panic and guilt. It is funny how when you are on the internet you can scroll past the deluge of puppy videos without blinking your eyes but when you open your textbook and read the first word you lose consciousness and fall into deep slumber. Your texts to your friend asking for help with the syllabus usually ends up in heated debate on the final episode of Game of Thrones.
You are setting yourself up for disappointment if you think “Bro will help me on the Video call”. Video calls usually starts with laughing fit, moves on to judging session and culminates in trading sob stories about your significant other if you have one or your crushes. These video calls will hardly be peppered with actual learning done in real time.
YouTube is such a sham really with its false promises of teaching us a topic through educational videos under three minutes but usually ends up in tempting us with suggestions which somehow seems more important than the actual thing we want to study.
Don’t even make me start on Snapchat, Facebook, PUBG, Instagram, Google, google chrome, Wi-Fi and my Internet Service Provider. Each one of them contributes to my inability to study and this is also me blaming the medium for the obvious lack of self-control that I possess. However, can internet withdrawal really be helpful to concentrate?
According to a student from Kamala Nehru College, “Internet is not the only distraction during the exam time. So limiting it’s usage is very subjective. The aim should be to increase your concentration and also keep the internet usage liberal.”
Using Internet as a scapegoat for your inability to concentrate is not only very delusional but also is not helping you to realize your weakness. Self-control is the key to actually get some work done.
Internet with its elaborate offerings can help you to de-stress only if you know how to use it to relax for a fixed period of time and not let your temptation allow you to exceed your set limitation. All I am saying is that don’t let one conspiracy video turn into five and end up taking all of your time.
Focus is the key my friend. You cannot study while your mind is drifting to things it has no business drifting towards. Your focus needs to be steel-strong and your tendency to procrastinate fibre thin if you want to knockout that monstrous syllabus.
In the end, Internet does make a pretty good excuse for not working hard enough to score a decent GPA but we all know the real fault lies in our inability to work our asses off when it is really required. So, study hard and stay hydrated to pass this semester and learn to co-exist peacefully with internet without letting it control you.
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Antriksha Pathania
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