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Why Being Sick In College Is The Worst

I miss my mom.

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Why Being Sick In College Is The Worst
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I am someone who gets sickall the time. It is so annoying, but being in college, it's even more aggravating. Getting sick as a college student is the absolute worst, and here are some reasons why.

1. You don't have your mom to take care of you anymore.

When you are sick, there is nothing better than having your mom there to nurse you back to health. Moms will do anything you need while you are sick, but now, you're on your own in college and still have to manage to take care of your sick self. (Next time you're sick at home, you'll be forever grateful for your mom.)

2. Being sick is expensive.


When you are at home, you can ask your family to get you medicine or take you to the doctor. However, in college, it is up to you to drag yourself to the doctor and go and buy your own medications, tissues, and hot tea. Sometimes finding enough spare change to make all your necessary "sick purchases" is hard enough in itself.

3. Skipping class could really screw you over.


Growing up when you were sick, you had friends who could help with homework, your parents would just write a note for you to take to school when you got better, and you had multiple days to catch up on any missed assignments. If you skip class in college, you don't get multiple chances to makeup work and sometimes your professors are not the most understanding of individuals.

4. Your friends don't want to help take care of you.


And can you blame them? I mean, being sick in college is the worst, and they don't want to be the next one stuck in bed all day. When they get sick, then who is going to help take care of them? Not you.

5. You just want to constantly sleep.


If you were already falling behind in classes, sleeping the day away is definitely not helping. But when I'm sick now, all I want to do is lay in my comfy bed and sleep away my pain.

6. Taking a test while being sick is just a set up for failure.


So you decided to go to class because you have a test? Well taking a test with a runny nose, a headache, and the overall feeling of being sick, completely takes your concentration off of the test. You're basically doomed from the start.

7. You think death is upon you.


Okay, so maybe that's a little dramatic, but to the sick college kid, that is exactly what every runny nose feels like.

So to those of you who get sick all of the time like me, you're not alone in your horrible college sick days. College students everywhere know that when they feel themselves getting sick, it is all going to be down hill from there.

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