My Study Hall Shenanigans

I know I should be using my study hall time to get ahead on coursework or plan for my thesis, but instead, I spend half an hour every day playing a mobile game on my phone. It's not like it’s Candy Crush; this is a strategy game with real depth and complexity. But still, I feel pretty guilty about it. There are times when I try to tell myself it will only be five more minutes until I go back to work. Then the next thing I know, an hour has flown by, and all those notes for my research paper remain untouched. Every time I think I've learned my lesson and can focus fully on schoolwork in study hall, my phone seems to pull me back into its gravitational orbit. And when I catch myself doing this, there's a small part of me that tries to justify it by saying I'm just taking a little break from the monotony of academia. But honestly? That's total nonsense.