If you are a college student, chances are you've had to experience the pain of waking up for an early morning class. You probably fall into one of two categories:
a) You set 12 alarms the night before and you always wake up in time to rinse, lather, and repeat. You make it to class at 7:50 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
or
b) You set 12 alarms the night before but slept through all 12 only to surprise yourself because you woke up at 7:56 and somehow still made it to class before your professor.
Either way, we have all struggled to wake up for something before. Here are the miserable stages I have experienced.
1. Feeling so prepared because you set multiple alarms on 5 minute increments to ensure that you will be awake by 6:30 a.m. exactly.
You will wake up in time to go for a morning run, take a shower, and do your makeup to look your absolute best for that cute boy in English. You might even have time to make a cup of coffee and some oatmeal. Good for you!
2. Calculating how many more episodes of The Office you can watch to ensure you can still get at least 6 hours of sleep.
3. Contemplating whether or not you can get by on 5 hours and 30 minutes of sleep because the season just ended on a cliffhanger and you just need to see the one next episode...
How will you be able to make it through the whole day without knowing what happened with Jim and Pam? But how will you be able to make it through class with no sleep? Decisions, decisions.
4. Finally falling asleep. Finally.
Sweet dreams.
5. First alarm goes off at 6:15 a.m.
Second. Third. Then the last one...
Oh, I hope you don't wake up late...
6. You open your eyes and have a mini heart attack because you think you're late. Good news and bad news: You aren't late, but it is 7:30. No run, no hair and makeup, no oatmeal...
Time to pray today won't be the day that cute boy decides to talk to you!
7. After resting your eyes another 20 minutes, you somehow drag yourself out of bed and speed-mode turns on.
Somehow you brush your teeth, get dressed, throw your hair up and brew a quick cup of coffee all in 6 minutes. You're out the door kind of running/casually power walking through the crowd to class by 7:56 a.m.
8. Accepting that one day you will wake up in time...
Try not to think about how your outfit doesn't match...
...or how you might not have put on deodorant.
It's going to be a great day! You'll set another alarm and go to bed earlier so you can definitely wake up early next time. Definitely.
