Getting Sick in College (Don’t Do It!)
To clarify, the title is “Getting Sick IN College”…not “OF College.” That would be an entirely different—and much longer—blog post.
Two weeks ago I woke up on Sunday morning and almost immediately went back to bed. A stomach bug rudely disrupted my carefully budgeted time.
Since that Sunday, I’ve wandered around campus in zombie-mode, scaring my friends and strangers with my glazed over eyes and pale face.
Seriously though, the dark circles under my eyes now have dark circles themselves.
For several days now, I’ll fall into bed around 4 or 6 p.m. and wake up a few hours later to rush through the homework due the next day. I’m sure my teachers appreciate the jumbled sentences and unedited paragraphs I’m trying to pass off as written papers.
Whether you are a planner, a dreamer (who plans but then keeps planning alternative realities), or the anti-planner (who worries that any planning will disrupt their natural flow of spontaneity, I doubt you plan to be sick.
Life’s a little too busy and a little too short to waste on stomach bugs and fevers.
I shied away from posting because it’s hard to write about adventure when all you want to do is lie in bed and drink more Powerade.
Maybe now I’m mentally drained enough that a short “life update” seems to justify an entire blog post.
My point (was there a point?) is don’t get sick in college. Use the hand sanitizer bottles that have now cluttered our campus. Drink some Powerade. Try to sleep at least three nights a week.
And if you manage to keep up with all three of those requirements (which for the record, I mastered this pre-stomach bug), expect sickness to disrupt your carefully planned out life.
Try to appreciate the spontaneity! What’s more spontaneous and unplanned then waking up with a fever or flu? Maybe getting sick can be a soda-cracker, chicken-noodle soup adventure all in itself.
