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The last time I had a job, I spent most of my time "not working" and feeling guilty about it. I decided to solve the problem by leaving the job, and I've been job-free since September 2006.
For some reason, I almost never end up regretting putting things off or simply choosing not to do them at all. Don't want to do homework? There's an easy solution to that problem. Drop the course!
(Advice to anyone reading that's currently in college: take as few courses as possible each semester, so you have more time to focus on each one that you do take. Graduating in five or six years is just as good as graduating in four.)
As it turns out, the only reason I managed to get through college was that my parents were very determined to see me graduate and were willing to micromanage my life in order to make sure that I did. As far as I'm concerned, the only significant benefit I've gotten from not having dropped out of Rutgers after my sophomore year was continued financial support from my parents...
Alternative advice, perhaps more useful to people not yet in college than to people already there: When choosing any sort of discretionary education, make sure you're doing something that you find interesting enough that you want to do more of it rather than less, or useful enough to give you the same motivation by indirect means.