It's no secret that pretty much every freshman in college gets sick during their first semester no matter how strong their immune system is. The dorms are literally a giant germ of past freshmen's sickness. It doesn't matter which way you shake it at some point you will probably get sick. If you don't I'd love to know your secret because It hasn't even been a month and I am already sick for a second time.
1. The first sniffle.
I should be fine... right? Usually you're thinking I probably just need to blow my nose or something, no big deal. I usually never get sick. I'm fine. But then the next morning hits.
2. Oh no, what's happening?
At this point you are probably waking up to a sore throat looking around wondering if you are actually getting sick or if it is just because you slept with your mouth open or something. But then, a cough escapes your mouth...
3. It's just a little cough, you can handle it.
You're thinking maybe you just need a nap or something. You went out late last week, no need to call your mom over that. Right?
4. Okay, you are sick.
Now is when you start to cry because you are tired, thinking about sad stuff, maybe had a depressing canned soup dinner alone in your dorm. You don't really want to cry because it will only make your stuffy nose worse, but the tears just have to happen, okay.
And then one good cry later...
5. I NEED MY MOM.
You give her the blow by blow of when everything started. From the first sneeze all the way to the cry you just had. She tells you to go to the health center, and that everything will be fine although all you know you really need is a hug right now. After you hang up:6. The "I'm just going to drop out or something" thoughts kick in.
We've all had this conversation with ourselves. We think that we are not ready to live on our own, and contemplate moving back in with our parents and going to the local community college or something. You then calm down and go to sleep even though it's like eight o'clock at night. After all you might feel better in the morning.
But then it's next week and...
7. What time our we going out?
You have slept off whatever "sickness" you had, took some antibiotics, and now you feel like a new person ready to finally (!!!) go out again.