1. You still have to go to class.

In high school, it was easy to just skip a day or two and not worry that you might fail a class but in college every class counts; so even though you feel like death you have to get out of bed and go to class.

2. Your mom isn't there to take care of you.

Since you're an "adult" now, and living away from home your mom won't be there to make you food and give you medicine; so you are forced to get out of bed and get food all by your sick self.

3. You feel like you're getting everyone else sick.

Each time you cough, sneeze or even breathe, you feel like you are patient zero and you are going to be the cause of a new plague.

4. Trying not to cough in a silent but full lecture hall.

You know the second when you do let out that horrible congested cough, everyone in a 15 seat radius is going to turn and stare at you like you really are spreading the plague.

5.Web-Md tells you that you're indeed dying.

Since you are alone in this sickness, of course, you turn to Web-Md which probably confirms that you are in fact infecting everyone else with a horrible disease that your symptoms mildly resemble -- that, or you have cancer.