Dorky ways to avoid studying
Sit down with a piece of paper (or a chalkboard) and try to draw the US, with all the states labeled, from memory. Talia and I entirely forgot about Nebraska until we went through the state song, and we munged the eastern seaboard, but we don't like them anyways.
Then we tried to do the same for Europe. There are a lot less European countries than states. I can do western Europe (my Germany was a weird shape, though), but my knowledge just ends with the balkans and all those former USSR countries. It's pretty sad. I did get Romania right, though. :)
This was after Anthony read a little infographic in the National Geographic on the results of an international student quiz in geography, where american students performed pretty pitifully and could only identify correctly on a map on average three countries out of eleven on a list that included China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. German students were the best, with an average of six.
Snacks for procrastination: a glass of eggnog lite, hummus, and a mango.