Getting sick is never fun. You're stuck in bed all day, your body aches, and you feel like you are experiencing death-like symptoms. In college, it's way less fun than before, because you're pretty much on your own when it comes to getting better. Here's what it's like compared to when you were in high school, living life at home.
Pre-sickness:
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High School: Your Mom notices your cough and blesses you with her wisdom and her fully stocked medicine cabinet. Thanks to her, your illness is usually shortened because of the early treatment.
College: "It's just a cough" I say. You brush off your symptoms because you don't have time to be sick, you have midterms, papers, and assignments due at 11:59 p.m. You can be sick after, but not right now.
Sickness:
High School: You get to sleep away your troubles, while your darling mother makes you soup and a Gatorade slurpee. You don't have any responsibilities other than to get better.
College: You don't get to sleep away your troubles, assignments are still due. College does not stop for the weak and sick students. If you want soup, you have to go to the student store and buy it, but unfortunately they are out out of Chicken Noodle, so you are stuck with Creamy Mushroom, which just about sums up how you feel right now.
The doctor:
High school: Your mom drives you to the doctor, and you get a doctors note, which excuses your absence for a few days.
College: If you wanted to see your doctor, you have to skip class to get an excuse to skip class. You then decide to go to the University health center but it's filled with other creamy mushroom students such as yourself who are in the same situation as you.
Taking your medicine:
High School: Mom picks up your medicine for you, and reminds you to take it, and how much.
College: You have to pick up your own medicine, wait in line behind all the other sick people, and pray you don't get even more sick just standing there.
Missing class:
High School: *Misses a couple days of school, is ahead of assignments*.
College: *Misses 2 classes in a row, is failing, misses midterm, Professor does not post lecture notes online, quizzes cannot be made up, and some callous student stole your un-assigned, assigned seat*.
Resting up:
High School: Mom tells your siblings to leave you alone to rest. The television is all yours for the next few days, and you don't have to do your chores.
College: Your neighbors decide to throw a week-long party. You have Netflix, but there are too many people on the server, so you are always kicked out. Your apartment doesn't clean itself, sadly. You still have to do homework assignments from your death bed.
Social Interaction:
High School: You get a few days off from the drama-filled halls of high school. You don't miss anything that can't be caught up by a text message. You didn't have to get dragged to your parent's work events because you were too sick to go out.
College: You miss the party of the century that was so wild a research paper couldn't even describe all that you missed. None of your friends or fellow students dare come near you because they don't want to catch whatever sickness you have. You're just sad, sick, and alone.
