due on thursday / do on thursday
A The Lazy College Senior post.
The essay must be 2,000 words, give or take ten per cent. You write exactly 1,800 and a bibliography. The word count is the only thing you checked twice. A colleague with three weeks left before he leaves answers every email with "noted". Nothing has been done since. Everything has been noted. The pan says "soak". It has been soaking since Tuesday. Technically, the washing up is in progress. Your tracker wants 10,000 steps. At 11 at night you're on 9,400, so you shake your wrist while watching television until it buzzes. Goal achieved. **Why it caught on:** a stock photo called "Young Man Drinking Beer At Outdoor Pub" became Reddit's senior to College Freshman, the student three years in who has worked out precisely how little is needed, and senioritis is real at every age.