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A Summary of Designing This Website as Told by GIFs from “The Office”

This website was initially launched as a class assignment, which included a blog post. Not to brag, but my professor loved this post so much that she keeps the link as an example for future classes.


Let’s sit crooked and talk straight: I 100% procrastinated on this assignment. I spent the entire semester rewatching The Office. So when I sat down to make this website a la an epic 80s movie montage, I had nothing but Michael Scott on my mind.

A Timeline of Building This Site

Getting the assignment deliverables at the beginning of the semester:

“I’ll have plenty of time to get it done once things settle down.”

The end of the first month of classes, when the professor asks how things are coming along:

“Let’s change the subject”

The end of the second month, when the professor says she’s excited to see all of our hard work:

Getting a calendar reminder that the assignment is due in a week – the same week as two other major project deadlines:

I can sleep when I’m dead, right?

Six days before it’s due and I’m realizing my WordPress skills might be a little rusty:

Four days before it’s due. The anger and denial phase is setting in:

How could I let this happen.

Three days before it’s due and I’m trying to be serious, but somehow the magnitude has not set in:

Two days before it’s due. The blindfold comes off: 

And the inside of my brain is just:

One day before it’s due and everything is oddly surreal:

The morning of the day the website is due. I muster every little bit of willpower left in me to finish this godforsaken website: 

(Emotional bankruptcy)

Hittin’ that submit button at 11:58pm:

And quickly moving past the celebration because I have another project due in less that twelve hours:

It may be tough right now, but always remember: 

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