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26 8am Struggles Of A Tired College Student

Strug city.

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At one point or another, we've all had that dreaded 8am that we can't wait to be done with. It makes school seem horrible and the days seem longer. When we registered for the class the thought of waking up early didn't seem so bad, but in the back of our minds, we knew we would still hate our lives every morning. Here are 26 struggles most of us encounter on the day of our 8ams.

1. When you finally make yourself get into bed at 10pm and turn the light off, everyone in the world decides to text you with all of their urgent problems that need to be solved right then and there.

2. Then you're so awake from looking at your phone so you decide to put on Netflix and end up watching three episodes of meaningless TV.

3. By 11pm, your alarm clock has inched up from 7am to 7:15am to 7:30am and by the time you fall asleep it's 2am...because what's sleep anyway?

what is sleep

5. You wake up at 6:55am and check the time and decide you still have enough time to get that extra five minutes of sleep.

when the alarm clock goes off

6. But then your extremely depressed five minutes later when your alarm explodes.

just tired

7. So you lay in bed for another ten minutes thinking about how you really just want to skip class.

8. But then you remember how guilty you would feel if you did.

9. So you decide to wake up by checking Facebook and Instagram for a bit.

10. But before you know it, you realize it's 7:30 and you have like 15 minutes to get ready.

11. So you scramble and finally roll out of bed, but you can't see anything because you refuse to turn the light on.

12. So you trip over your laptop charger, fan cord and backpack trying to get dressed for the day.

13. Then you remember it's early and it's still cold out, so you have to change to accommodate the weather.

8 am class

14. But your favorite cold weather clothes are in the laundry.

all the laundry I have

15. So you sigh at the thought of suffering all day with something less flattering.

16. And when you finally make it to the bathroom, everything you pick up magically seems to fall on the ground. First, the toothbrush and then the hair brush.

17. So you get frustrated.

18. Then your hair straightener falls and burns your skin.

trying to get ready

19. So you quit for the day.

sometimes you lose everything

20. And then when you are finally done getting ready, you find out that all of your favorite granola bars are gone.

21. So you have to look forward to your stomach grumbling for the next two hours in class.

22. And when you finally stumble into class, your teacher decides to yell everything they need to communicate.

need you to stfu

23. Then they shut the lights off just to go over slides.

24. But they conveniently get mad when you fall asleep because it's dark.

25. So you try to wake yourself up by taking better and more detailed notes.

boring class

26. But then you don't understand what's going on so you just stop taking them and think "Oh, I'll remember this later," but you don't.

time for one more example




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