As an undergraduate student, I always deal with the same problem every semester that may seem minor, but it has been a major problem of mine for the past four years of my college experiences. I’m sure a lot of people deal with this, but I tend to procrastinate a lot. Even with important assignments coming up, I can’t help but procrastinate because it is a way to cope with reality in a sense. It is not the best way to cope and I know I should not be procrastinating because I have school work to worry about, but it is very difficult to get myself out of it. I am the type that does not get motivated easily, so I need some sort of trigger to get myself motivated.

The solution I came up with is to create a phone app that incentivizes you to procrastinate less by rewarding you with coupons. This app will track how often you procrastinate by checking your phone’s daily screen time, and with every hour that you are able to decrease your screen time, this app will reward you with a coupon. These coupons can range from $5 credit, or coupons to stores such as H&M, Zara, and others. For example, if my phone screen time is normally nine hours a day, and I am able to lower it down to eight hours over time, this app will reward me with a coupon of your choice. As mentioned, you can choose a $5 credit that you can use on anything, or it can be a coupon for a specific store of the choices you will be given on the app.

Personally, I think this is a problem that is very worth solving because college itself is already so time consuming; time management is a very important skill to have as a college student and unfortunately not a lot of us are good at it. Especially for students with part time of full time jobs, it is very difficult trying to manage both school and work simultaneously. Back when I had a job during pre-covid times, I would always struggle to balance work and school; whenever I came back home from work, I would be too tired to physically or mentally function, and because of that I would procrastinate so much more than I normally would compared to a regular school day. Hopefully with this phone app, I will be able to solve this problem of procrastination.