Getting sick in high school was every kids dream. It meant that you got to skip school for a day or too, without having too much homework to make up on. Sure, you might have had to go to the doctor, but you still got out of classes. In college, being sick is very very different. You pray that you don't get sick because it's vital you go to every class, because missing one class is worse than you forgetting to renew your Netflix subscription. We all think we can manage to escape getting sick, but truth be told you just really can't avoid it. When you do get sick, however, you kind of go through a process.
Being confined in dorms makes getting sick so much easier. When it's flu season I can basically hear Oprah saying "You get a cold, and you get a cold...Everyone gets a cold!!!!"
You avoid being an adult and calling the doctor. I would rather die from whatever I have than actually make a doctor's appointment.
You just really can't afford to miss class. I will sneeze on everyone and everything, but I am NOT missing class!
You think about the good old days when you were sick as a kid.
Realizing you took for granted all those days in your life that you weren't sick. I miss those days where I could breath out of both nostrils and drink liquids without Satan stabbing me in the throat with a pitchfork.
You steal tea packs from the cafeteria to make back in your dorm. There is no way I'm going to Walmart to buy a box of tea when I can take those little packs from the cafeteria. Sorry not sorry.
Looking up home remedies to cure you sickness because you still refuse to call the doctor. "It says here if I drink a a gallon of milk while reading the bible backwards, I'll get over this cold in no time."
Overthinking about how you're avoiding getting check out by a doctor. "So this illness has lasted me three days, I'm probably going to be dead by Wednesday."
Not telling your mom you're sick. My mom would literally hop in her car and drive down to my school and force me to go to the doctor.
Medicating yourself, because again you're avoiding the doctor. So I just ate a whole bag of cough drops, I'm cured right?
Finally giving in and going to the doctor. You mean to tell me, I've been putting this doctor's appointment off, and overthinking about what I could possible have, and all I have is a common cold?
Finally getting over your common cold. I am so alive. I'm a whole new person. I will never again take advantage of my body functioning properly ever again!!!