Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well-lit place with enough freshly sharpened pencils
· Call your mails
· Read the task carefully to make sure you understand it
· Go to the vending machine and get a coffee, which promotes concentration.
· Call your mails.
· Stop by your fellow student on the way back upstairs. If your friend has not started the talk yet, you can go to McDonalds and have a hamburger. This promotes concentration. If your friend shows you his paper, neatly typed and bound in one of those weird transparent plastic staples, chase him to hell.
· When you are back in your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well-lit place with enough freshly sharpened pencils.
· Read the task carefully to be absolutely sure that you understand it.
· Call your mails.
· You know that you have not written this guy from the camp since the 4th grade. Just write this letter now, then you have done it and can concentrate better.
· Look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror.
· Listen to a page of your favorite tape, that’s important. When it is over, you start with the presentation.
· Listen to the other side.
· Call your mails.
· Arrange all your CDs in alphabetical order.
· Call your friend upstairs and ask if he has already started his speech.
· Share about your professor, about the university, about the world as a whole.
· Sit in a straight, comfortable chair. Take a Mentos , let it melt its unique taste on your tongue.
· Call your mails.
· Check the TV program, make sure you do not miss something really important. Note: If the presentation has to be delivered in less than 12 hours, then everything on TV is really important.
· Exceptions:
o The transfer of the bowling championships
o Every movie with Don Ameche
· Look at the last part of “Soul Brother of Kung Fu to” on channel 26
· Call your friend upstairs and ask if he has seen it too. Discuss the intricacies of the plot.
· Call your mails.
· Look at your tongue in the bathroom mirror.
· Take a look at the photo album of your roommate. Ask exactly who the people are in the photos.
· Sit down and think seriously about your future plans after.
· Go out the door and make sure that there are not any strange strangers in trench coats hanging around in the hallway
· Call your mails.
· Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lit place with enough freshly sharpened pencils
· Read through the task again, just like that.
· Roll the chair to the window and look at the sunset.
· Throw yourself on the floor and moan.
· Call your mails.
· Jump on and write the paper.
· Tip it off and while you’re at it, retrieve your mail.
· Wish everyone that you had to go through the night because of this damn presentation.