The trick is making it into a useful series of tubes

Usually the combination of the finals and the internet results in bad, bad things. Things like spending 36 hours on the computer and finding you have a grand total of 250 words written. But the internet isn’t all time-suck! Check out Vox’s list of internet tools that will actually boost your finals productivity.

First and foremost, for the distracted: there are a few solutions to keep you from using the internet as a glorious tool of free-roaming mischief, and instead to stay on task for that deadly 20 pager you’ve only just begun. Actually, within the realms of pages you’d find on google, the internet also offers a solution for your scatterbrain. Dr. Wicked has a prescription for your internet hyperactivity, and it isn’t a few doses of Adderall: Write-or-Die. Just let this internet-based program know that you want to complete a certain number of pages in a certain amount of time, and if you don’t live up to your potential, your screen will start flashing and your speakers will resonate with terrible music. Apparently you don’t want to piss this program off.

More helpful programs after the jump!

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