Being sick at college is the absolute worst. NyQuil, Dayquil, cough drops, ginger ale, extra blankets, netflix, and chicken soup suddenly become the extent of your existence. Brace yourselves, because flu season is upon us. Here's 12 reasons why feeling sick at college is the worst:

1. You literally believe you're going to die.

2. You're still expected to go to class.

3. You don't have anyone to wait on you like at home.

4. Your roommates and friends are all repulsed by you.

4. You become a walking petri dish for everyone else on campus.

5. You can't control the thermostat in dorms.

6. Trying to turn your work in becomes a genuine danger.

7. Dry-heaving over medicine because there's no sugar around to lessen the bitterness.

8. No one can make you feel better like your mom can.

9. Yet you refuse to be an adult and make an appointment with the clinic.

10. Or, if you DO go to the campus clinic, all they give you is Mucinex and a band-aid (even if you have the plague.)

11. Or the medicine doesn't even help anyway.

12. You have to avoid people for what feels like years.

Hang in there, brave soldier. You'll be better soon.