You have this paper to write—this paper you’ve been putting off writing for the past week-and-a-half because you just don’t know where to start and because the subject matter isn’t very interesting and because, well, you’ve finally gotten into “The Office” even though it’s approximately seven billion years too late to have finally gotten into “The Office.”

But now, you’re running out of episodes of “The Office” to watch, and you’re looking for something else to do with your time instead of actually writing the paper. Don’t worry—I have a long list of things you can do! Some of these are even productive (or at least you can pretend they are).

Do your laundry

You may or may not have a large pile of dirty clothes on the floor because your hamper is filled with clean clothes that you are too lazy to put into your drawers. You also may or may not have failed to clean your sheets all semester. Neither of these things are shameful—you’re a college student, after all—but it sounds like it’s time to wash those clothes and bedding soon.

Clean out your backpack

Sometimes, I just shove my assignments into my backpack and then find them rolled up at the bottom months later. I don’t know if this is a me problem or an everyone problem, but I never quite get around to cleaning out my accumulated garbage. Clean it out so that you can fill it with more forgotten-about sheets of paper.

Read a book

It’s probably been a while since you’ve (actually) read a book. Maybe you should hunker down with a New York Times bestseller and get to reading, or you should read that cool book that you had for class and really planned to read but never did because of time constraints. There are so many possibilities—and besides, if you get really into your book, you can almost forget that you even have an essay to write at all.

Bake a cake

Cooking is a useful skill, like a really, really useful skill. But baking is just a more fun version of cooking. If you’re not a Washington University Student Associate, I’d say there’s a good chance you haven’t baked a cake recently. Why not make one? And if you are a WUSA, then you can get a jump start on that cake you promised you’d bring to WUSA hours! Sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Take a nap

You can’t write an essay if you’re sleep deprived. You’ll probably write words that aren’t really words and don’t actually make any sense. Still, napping is basically the most fun you can have without leaving your room.