Dear Coffee,

For the past few years, you have played a major role in my life. Starting in high school, when I would wake up at 5AM in the morning to drive to water polo practice all the way to now, where I would wake up at 6AM to get to my Nursing Stats course. You got me through last summer where I endured crazy managements at work and getting called in at the worst moments after pulling an all nighter studying for my summer classes. But somehow, a cup of coffee would make these problems ease away.

For the past few weeks this semester, you have gone above and beyond the call of duty. So much that one cup a day isn't enough. In the wee hours of the morning in Nursing Statistics, you would be pulling me through in a 20 oz Blender Bottle container keeping me alert so I could note down any major points during the lecture. That is two cups of coffee in the morning. Fast forward to supper right before my Microbiology class. One cup of coffee along with my lunch has helped pull me through holding back and throwing a chair at the chirping cricket inside the class room.

Thanks to you coffee, the most uninteresting subjects that I am studying have somehow caught my interests for the past few weeks. I never thought I would be interested in Freud and how his theories of Psychosexual Development played a role in different lifespans across the board nor would I have thought to have an interest in which hospital instruments could be used in an autoclave. But thanks to you coffee, I know the most unimportant details that have caught my eye during lectures.

Lastly, the longest part of the day is not the classes nor the mornings spent struggling so hard to exit my bed. Nor is it attempting to help myself to not lodge my desk across the room in the general direction of the before mentioned cricket. Alas, for me it is the nights that I am buried in a pile of textbooks that coffee comes in to be my knight in shining armour. You have made sure that I no longer procrastinate on Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and best of all, iFunny. You have ensured that I am deeply buried into the textbooks only able to survive until I pass out on my couch at 4AM.

An ode to coffee! Cheers to the near-future cups of it that I will consume. May our coffees be strong and our wills to make it through the entire semester be stronger.