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TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARVARD SLACKER

NAMES AND CLASS YEARS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT

Balancing ample sleep, a healthy social life and the bare minimum of studying leaves a self-described slacker like Lot the master of his own schedule.

"Unless I have a paper to write or something, I'm not likely to open a textbook," Lot says. "But I'm hardly the couch potato type. I read a lot."

All I Ever Needed To Know I Learned From A Slacker

Lot says there are a lot fellow undergraduates can learn from the guy next door with the empty planner.

For Lot, slacking off is worth it.

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"I'd much rather make the occasional B than be the person who can't ever do anything spontaneously fun, you know, like just go to a movie on a Tuesday night or something, because they can't neglect their workload," Lot says.

And Lot is quick to point out that just because you're a slacker doesn't necessarily mean you're "lying in bed for six days with nothing but a six-pack of Yoo-Hoos and some potato chips."

"If you're a premeditative, calculated, intentional slacker-with-a-plan like I am, then it's go-go-go," Lot says, explaining his less-than-stark schedule.

Although Lot can't trade war stories about consecutive all-nighters with his roommates, he says he's happier than the average undergraduate.

"I mean, like, okay, you're a dork, and you don't get any sleep, and you have to work ten times as hard as me to make the same grades," he says. "Now why am I supposed to be impressed again? Shut up.

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