What is school if not a place for your mind to just…wander? I mean, sure, technically you are there to “learn” and “get an education” and “get into college” so you can become a “responsible adult,” but really, at a certain point, there’s only so much you can do in that regard. For most people, it only takes about eleven minutes to get distracted, after all, so if you’re in a forty-five minute-long class, that gives you at least four times for your mind to create some sort of diversion for itself. Plus, there’s the fact that school, since it’s basically a petri dish of awkward human interaction, offers a lot in the way of entertaining interruptions–like, you’ve got your requisite friend drama, crushes on your classmates, and (though we don’t endorse this) potential crushes on teachers.