1. You can't do fun things.

It straight up sucks when your friends are all talking about their plans for the night and you know you have to stay in bed and go to bed early.

2. You have to go to class even though you feel like sh*t.

Professors don't understand that dragging yourself to class when you have a contagious illness just so you can get credit for that one clicker question may not be the most brilliant idea and will probably just make you feel even worse.

3. Your parents can't help you.

I'm going to be honest here. I can't really take care of myself. Whenever I'm sick, I find myself texting my parents every five seconds asking, "can I mix Tylenol and NyQuil?" "Is one dose of Mucinex two pills or one?" "Is it bad to drink coffee when I'm sick?" or pretty much any other question, and it takes me way longer to get better because I can't do anything right.

4. You're just not at home in your own bed.

Even when you start to feel a little bit crummy, you wish you could sit on your couch and eat soup in front of the TV. When you feel downright horrible, this feeling is amplified x1000.

5. EVERYBODY is sick, creating an endless amount of germs.

You infect your friends, who infect their roommates, who infect their classmates, who infect their friends, who live in your dorm and boom, you're sick again, just as you got healed. The vicious cycle never ends.

6. There's no way you can study.

Even if you try to study, you just fall back asleep because your body needs to rest. Good luck on midterms now.

7. You're pretty much isolated for the entirety of your sickness.

You can't go out, and even if you spend time with friends, your throat hurts too badly to talk or you're too tired to even formulate words. Your bed is your new BFF, but hey, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Don't let this article depress you too much; you never feel better than the week you recover from an annoying cold or flu and appreciate all the fun you have while you can.