Unless you're a lucky freshman who has yet to experience it, we've all gotten the infamous plague while in college. The world feels like it's ending, you can't breathe, and all you want is your mom. Here's a list of everything that happens during the difficult time of the plague:

1. You see friends come down with something, but convince yourself you are not going to get sick. You take the necessary precautions.

2. Your roommate gets the bug, and you try to console him/her...from a distance.

3. As hard as you fought, the sickness won, and you are now the illest (in the illness sense, not the cool sense).

4. You try to convince yourself that some Vitamin C, water, and Sudafed will save you. You're still in denial.

5. You quickly realize that is not the reality. This is no simple cold; it is the plague.

6. You are the person everyone hates in class due to your coughing, sneezing, nose-blowing, and constant sniffling.

7. The worst thing that could happen to you is forgetting Kleenex in class.

8. Everyone knows why you're wearing long sleeves even if it's a 70-degree October day

9. You then realize the actual worst thing that could happen in class or during a meeting: the dreaded coughing attack.

10. You try to stifle your cough to no avail.

11. Your eyes water, you can't breathe, and your face is bright red.

12. The thought of imminent death seems like sweet relief to this embarrassment.

13. You live through the experience.

14. All you want is your mom to take care of you.

15. These people around you, your "friends," give you horrible health advice.

16. You just want to sleep all day.

17. But responsibilities still call, so you do them as quickly as you can, so you can go back to sleep while hating your life.

18. Soup, hot tea, and hot salsa (trying to clear out those sinuses), stew, or basically anything with warm liquid are the only things you're consuming/able to keep down.

19. You call your mom crying 20 times in an hour.

20. You find the person who is closest to a mom in your friend group and ask her what to do/what drugs* to take to feel better.

*Over-the-counter medicinal drugs, for health reasons.

21. Whether it's upstairs or downstairs, a lot of stuff is coming out of your body that shouldn't.

22. You forgot what it feels like to be healthy.

23. You wake up the next day hoping to feel better, but you only feel worse.

24. You feel as though this is never ending.

25. You eventually start to feel better.

26. One day you wake up and you can breathe.

27. You've beaten the plague. It truly is a miracle.