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11 Facts About Being Sick in School

Being sick in school means that you want nothing more than to curl up and die, but can't.

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11 Facts About Being Sick in School
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It's reaching the season where everyone is either sick or getting sick. Living on campus with other students so close by does nothing to prevent the spread of colds. So here are eleven things that are true about being sick at school, and the whole miserable process that goes with that.

1. Waking up to go to class is the worst

There is nothing worse than waking up like death and knowing you have to go to class.

2. Having an exam

Exams and being sick means that you are almost always screwed.

3. When your nose won't stop running

How many times can I sniffle before I feel like a distraction? Where are the tissues in this classroom?!

4. When your friends want to help but can't

They want to help but they also don't want to die of what you have.

5. Calling Your Mom

No way will your mom tolerate you being sick as why you missed class.

6. Going to The Doctors

The only thing that could make the doctors worse is now you have to call to make your own appointment and can't have your mom do it for you.

7. When people say you don't look good

Hmm, you don't say?

8. Being Too Cold

Seriously someone turn off the AC now before I freeze to death.

9. Being Too Hot

There is no winning when you are sick, rooms are so hot you can feel your clothes drench in sweat.

10. Not Wanting To Spread It

When someone backs away from you after finding out you are sick as if you are a leper, it makes you wish they were sick instead...Pe

11. When the professor asks why you came to class...

So there you have eleven things all college kids have to deal with when they get sick. So gather up your medicine and stock pile the chicken noodle soup and tissues. As we are now entering the cold season.

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