Waking up is hard to do in the best of circumstances, but it’s a million times worse if you’re not even a morning person. Non-morning people were the majority in my house growing up -- my mom and I outnumbering my dad 2:1 -- and somehow, I think that it’s gotten worse for me as I’ve gotten older. My morning interactions with my parents can be summed up in by a series of grunts and mutters toward them, but they tend to take it stride and not much has changed since I’ve gone to college and my friends have witnessed my grouchiness in the morning. Those who aren’t morning people can sympathize with me. Overall, this is how a typical morning goes for me -- and all non-morning college students -- as told by the characters in the TV show, “Friends.”

1. Our alarm goes off obnoxiously loud and we sit up furiously. There are many times throughout the year that I have rolled over angrily and hit the snooze button for five more minutes before getting up for class. I would also be lying if I said that I have never felt the need to scream into my pillow in anger.

2. When someone talks to us, we give him or her the dirtiest look. I’ve perfected the “If you talk to me one more time, I will run you through with a spork” look, over the years. It got to the point where my dad, who brought me to school throughout middle and high school, would know better than to act goofy as we left the house at 7:15 A.M.

3. Our roommate, or any friend who’s a morning person, judges us. I’ve been fortunate enough to not have any morning people for roommates in the two years that I’ve lived at Fairfield, so some of my blessings were answered. Thankfully, there was an unspoken agreement between my roommate (who’s also my best friend) and I this year that we would not speak to each other in the morning, especially when one of us had an early class and the other was able to roll over and keep sleeping. We know what would happen if that rule was broken.

4. We may or may not fall back to sleep a few times while doing our morning routine. Has anyone else almost fallen asleep while using the bathroom in the morning? Don’t kid yourself -- I know that it’s not just me. That’s why they built the toilet paper dispenser at the perfect arm level to lean your elbow on as you rest your head against the stall wall.

5. We all have that one friend who says that he or she was up earlier, so we have “no right to complain.” We’ve all been there and I’m lucky enough to have friends who throw their 8 A.M. science labs in my face whenever I complain about being tired. If I hear someone say to me, “Please, I’ve been up since 8 A.M.” I loathe them a little bit a lot more and that just goes without saying.

6. We weigh the benefits and drawbacks of going to breakfast that morning. There were plenty of days when I had a 9:30 A.M. this best semester when I considered skipping breakfast and cutting my losses for an extra half hour of sleep. Then I remembered that I wouldn’t be eating until 3:30 P.M. and I dragged myself out of bed.

7. We’ve all struggled to stay awake even once we’re in class. It doesn’t matter if three hours have passed since we woke up -- it still feels too early to be listening to some professor go on about some random topic like cosmology or bloodletting (I’ve suffered through both lectures based on the aforementioned subjects).

8. We have to refrain at hissing from the sunlight. There are times when we feel like vampires because if the sun’s out, it’s confirmation that the day has started before we’re ready to accept it. If the sun were an actual person, we certainly would not have anything nice to say to it.

9. We’re also unhappy if it’s a rainy day because that’s just another compelling reason to stay in bed. It’s common knowledge that nothing gets accomplished when the weather is lousy, so really, you’re doing yourself a favor if you hit that snooze button one more time.

10. We inevitably decide to nap at some point in the afternoon and we will convince our friends to join us. There are some days when you just can’t fight it any longer and if you don’t curl up and sleep, you know that you’ll never make it to dinner.

11. We get back under our covers at the end of the night and are relieved that the day is finally over. Of course, the cycle will continue the next day, but that’s a problem for our future selves to deal with, not us.

Some people will try and deny that mornings are awful, but those people are delusional. There is absolutely nothing to look forward to when you have to get up early anyway because all the exciting things happen at night. Do yourself a favor -- hit that snooze button again.