I am left doing homework for some undetermined amount of time. My homework is to spend hours and hours looking at three news websites for diverse peoples. Read the articles, know the layout...and ultimately commit every obscure detail of these websites to memory so I can be tested on them Thursday and further prove my media un-literacy, as it is turning out to be.

You start messing around on these websites, and somewhere in the midst of this "studying" you start forgetting you're doing homework / should be paying attention. At this point you either give up and go to bed because clearly forgetting what you are doing means you're not learning anything, or you congratulate yourself for picking a major that has homework similar to your chosen form of procrastination (the Internet) and keep it up.

To veg or not to veg, that is the question.