1. 7 a.m. - Wake Up
This is quite the process for a college student. Seven in the morning may be later than you ever woke up in high school, but it is still such a struggle that you won't fully understand until you are actually in college. You may hit snooze at least four times, but you will eventually get up. Throw on a pair of yoga pants and a sweatshirt, and you are good to go.
2. 8 a.m. - Hit up the dining hall for the most important meal of the day
Not only is breakfast the most important meal of the day, but it is also the most delicious meal of the day. Getting either eggs or the usual bagel is a must, but when tater tots are available, you know it is going to be a good day. If there are no tots, then you must expect an average day at best.
3. 8:30 a.m. - Go to class
You walk into class feeling #flawless after that delicious breakfast, and you are more ready than ever to learn about Aristotle and Socrates. Then it hits you. You realize that you never finished your coffee. That is a sure sign of a cranky college student.
4. Noon - Lunch Time
By now, you have had three and a half hours of class and you are dying for that cup of coffee, so you run to the dining hall for lunch. You get your iced coffee and turkey sandwich and you are so ready to bless your stomach with a well-balanced meal, but you realize you can't find any of your friends. You are looking around the dining hall like a lost child, silently panicking. Finally, after what felt like 10 minutes of looking, you find a friend to sit with and you feel #blessed.
5. 1 p.m. - Time to attempt homework
Usually, this is an optimistic thought, but it is every college student's goal to finish their homework at a reasonable hour, so why not start early? You are feeling motivated and ready to go, so you open up your books and laptop and start writing that essay that is due at 8 a.m. the following morning. But then you open up Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and for some strange reason, reading about everyone else's lives on social media becomes significantly more interesting than that essay you were supposed to be writing.
6. 5:15 p.m. - Dinner Time
Not 5 p.m., not 5:30 p.m., but 5:15 p.m. It's a ritual, so all your friends better be at the dining hall on time so you can all talk about how your days went and how much homework you managed to procrastinate in those hours of free time you had after class. Oh yeah, and you eat everything in sight because eating is a college student's favorite pass time.
7. 8 p.m. - Time to panic
In the time between finishing dinner and now, you stopped at the printer and managed to spend 20 minutes talking to that cute boy from class, you ran into five of your closest friends, and took a nap. You still have that entire essay to write, so you have to get coffee and head to the library. It's going to be a late night, but at least you have coffee in your life, which is all that really matters in the end.
8. Midnight - Time for bed
This night ended in one of two ways: you either successfully finished your homework or you decided that sleep was more important. Either way, you get to go back to your moderately uncomfortable bed and get a mediocre night's sleep before you have to wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.
