Procrastination's final form: suddenly your half-baked side project becomes the most important thing in the universe when you've got a midterm in 48 hours. That TODO app you abandoned three months ago? Now it's calling your name louder than your Data Structures textbook ever could.
Your brain will do Olympic-level mental gymnastics to avoid studying. "But I NEED to refactor this component right now" or "This bug has been bothering me for weeks" (it hasn't). Suddenly you're debugging at 2 AM, telling yourself it's still productive work, just... not the work you're supposed to be doing.
The side project knows exactly when you're vulnerable. It's been sitting there dormant, but the moment academic pressure hits, it transforms into this irresistible siren song of TypeScript and Docker configs. Tale as old as time.
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