Every college student is familiar with deadlines and most of us have pulled all-nighters, dawning sleepy, red eyes just to put a paper or project into the hands of a professor and pass out from exhaustion during the class lecture.

Finals can seem insurmountable and sometimes there just doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Why exactly do students wait until the day before a big assignment is due to start pulling sources off dusty library shelves or to actually buckle down and exert their brains?  The answer is simple: stress.

Whether you’re guzzling AMP or Sobe for the Ginkgo Biloba, downing coffee for the caffeine or getting your fix off Ritalin, college students seem to work best under pressure.

Why punish yourself by procrastinating until the last second only to be overwhelmed by the amount of work that needs to be completed in less than twelve hours?

Part of it is the motivation factor.  Of course we want to get the grade, but there are so many other things that tempt us away from books and blank word processing documents.

That lucrative game of beer pong seems oh so attractive on a wet Wednesday night, and it’s just so good once it touches your lips.

The internet is great tool used by students to waste time whether you have a Myspace, Facebook or a You Tube addiction.

And of course, there’s another aspect of college: sex.  If you were faced with a choice between sex and physics and you had to pick your poison which would you prefer? Let’s face it unless not turning in your assignment would harshly effect your grade, the answer is obvious.

What it boils down to is whether or not you care.  You’ll get it done if you want the grade and if not you might find yourself sitting in the same lecture hall, retaking whatever it is you failed.

So here’s to you Mr. Up-all-night-working-on-an-assignment-that’s-worth-half-your-grade, Budweiser salutes you and so do your classmates, who are right there alongside of you.