Being sick in general is the most miserable thing on the planet. You feel like you're half human being, half zombie because something gross is always happening involuntarily.
When you're at home, your mom or dad can make you soup and get you any flavor of Gatorade you want and you don't have to move a muscle. You can just sit and relax on the couch and cuddle with your dogs. At school, you have to do everything yourself. These are the reasons why being sick at school is the worst thing in the whole world:
1. Each day you know you have to get up and go to class and climbing down your lofted bed is so incredibly painful that you don't even care about getting a zero on that quiz during lecture.
2. It's the middle of winter so of course you have to get bundled up, but your body temperature is already so high that when you sit on the bus it feels like all the water that dried up from the Sahara somehow ended up on your forehead.
3. When you tell your friends that you're sick their first question is usually, "Are you contagious???" because of course they see how miserable you are and don't want any part in that. Then they thoroughly keep a safe 5 foot distance from you at all times and make sure you don't touch any of their stuff.
4. You get major FOMO because people are texting you and asking you to go out and you know you want to sooooo badly but your body would hate you for it. Then you see snapchat stories throughout the night of your friends having fun while your laying in bed with soup, a teddy bear, and the fourth season of Friends on Netflix feeling like death.
5. Your throat hurts so much that speaking is not even an option, but your TA wants to do an ice breaker activity and you can think of about a trillion other things you'd rather do then expose your gross sick voice in front of a bunch of strangers. Like slip on ice or hit your head against the wall repeatedly...
6. Your roommates tell you how they feel so bad for you or they wish they could help and in your head your thinking, "THERE IS A WAY. GO MAKE ME SOUP OR TAKE OUT THE TRASH FOR ONCE. PLEASE."
However, there is no better feeling then when your throat starts to clear up and your fever goes away. Your medicine has finally kicked in and that half zombie inside of you has made its way back to the grave and will hopefully stay there until next winter (or forever).
Let's just hope that your friends weren't right about you being contagious...
