We all have those times when it seems like everything is going great until you get sick at the WORST possible time.

The thing is, in college, anytime to get sick is a bad time, and it seems to take way longer to recover than it should. Here are the five stages of any college student's experience when becoming sick.

1. When you start to feel like something is off but you try to push it away.

I am actually a puddle and my throat feels like someone is stabbing it, but I'm still going to stay up in the library until 2 a.m. and go out on Friday night.

2. When you're somehow still surprised that you haven't gotten better and instead feel as if you are slowly dying.

4 hours of sleep and half a pizza later and I wonder why I haven't gotten any better?

3. When you lie in bed wishing that someone was there to bring you soup, but you're stuck in a dorm with about 100 other people all fighting off the same thing.

*calls mom but realizes there is nothing she can do*

4. When you calculate how much medicine you can safely take to get through the day.

There are about a million directions on the back of this bottle, and will I regret taking NyQuil when I have to wake up for a class in 6 hours?

5. When you feel like an absolute zombie, but life must go on.

At the end of the day, you still have to take that test tomorrow and go to those 5 meetings in a row even though you wish you could just stay in bed for 48 hours.