Mondays are terrible.
It’s the beginning of the week, which usually means lying in bed Sunday night thinking about your schedule: counting how many lectures and discussions you have until the next weekend, feeling the anxiety of essay deadlines and homework assignments, planning out which assignments to do when and trying to schedule in endless club meetings and social activities.
But the one thing I look forward to on Monday morning is that perfect mug filled with sweet, caramel, hazelnut or french vanilla coffee (hot or iced depending on what I'm craving that day).
If you’re like me, a basic college student, you’re usually racing out the door for that first lecture Monday morning because you decided to hit snooze three times. On multiple occasions, I have left my coffee sitting on the kitchen counter as I raced out the door and on other days, I’m in such a hurry I don’t even have time to put in a mobile order at my favorite coffee shop: Starbucks.
The Monday morning struggle is real for me. If you can survive Monday without coffee, you deserve a gold medal. But if you can’t survive without coffee, these stages are for you.
1. The moment you realize you forgot your coffee
2. Thinking about what coffee shops are on your way to class
Coffee Bytes? Starbucks? Colectivo? Peet's Coffee? Do I even have time to stop?
3. If only you hadn't hit the snooze three times...
4. When you're too late for even a Starbucks mobile order
5. Debating with yourself whether you should just be 10 minutes late to class so you can get your daily cup of caffeine
6. Crying. In public.
7. Feeling like an outsider because every single person walking to class seems to have a coffee
(Which is mainly a Starbucks because it just re-opened last week on State Street.)
8. Wondering how to survive this first lecture without your Monday morning secret weapon
9. Trying to convince yourself that YOU CAN DO IT!
10. But then falling asleep in class because you just can't focus/keep your eyes open
11. Thinking about maybe, just maybe, asking the person sitting next to you if you can have a teeny tiny sip of their coffee
12. Wanting to casually ask if anyone wants to go on a coffee run in the middle of lecture
13. Counting down the minutes until lecture ends...
You're totally pulling an HSM2 countdown, don't deny it.
