Procrastination can happen in many different forms, but delaying your homework has never been easier since Netflix. With great power comes great responsibility, and with the power to stream as many movies and shows as your data plan can handle, it takes a responsible person to put down Netflix and start the calculus homework.

It all starts with a friend recommending a TV series that they have watched.

Diving into a series on Netflix is very dangerous: If the first episode of the show hooks you, it’s almost impossible to shake the urge to watch the next episode, and then the next, and the next. It’s like reading a crime novel in which the author ends every chapter in a cliffhanger. It takes a copious amount of willpower to reject the picture of the next episode, and the countdown looming above the picture. Without clicking on anything the next episode plays against your will, leaving you a 12 second window to ditch the tube and get to work on something productive.

Spending three hours watching Breaking Bad could feel like half an hour when it’s divided up into five or six thrilling episodes. Wondering if the next episode of Prison Break will finally be the one where Michael Scofield breaks out of the Fox River Penitentiary can start you down the slippery slope toward a late grade on an assignment.

Everyone with a Netflix account has his or her metaphorical Kryptonite; a show or series that’s irresistible to stray away from for long enough to get any work done. The best way to avoid the black hole sucking you into watching the next episode, or next movie in the trilogy, is to do the work assigned to you before indulging in the greatness of Netflix, then you’re free to finish an entire eight season series before the sun comes up.

Aside from Netflix, there are other web-based ways to waste your time. Twitter has also proven itself to be a powerful source of procrastination. Following only 200 people can lead to hundreds of tweets an hour begging to be read. The easiest way to keep off the web is to limit your access to it, get rid of your iPhone and switch to a flip phone where you have to hit three buttons to type one letter, but no one wants to do that.

Our generation has grown too accustomed to having the World Wide Web at their fingertips. It has become almost a reflex to reach for your phone at any sign of possible boredom or need to block out anything happening around you.

With the advancement of technology, this problem can only become worse. You have to make the choice to work first and play later.