So it's been a few weeks and everyone is getting settled into college life. The trees are slowly changing colors and everyone's finally finding time to spend with friends. Except...the plague is upon us. Hoards of students are walking around with heavy dark circles under their eyes. The rooms smell faintly of vomit. When everything is quiet, you can hear a barrage of coughing and hacking. But how will you survive this biological warfare?

Sanitize Yourself

Sanitizer is your god, your savior. Use that stuff as often as possible as your ultimate protection against the dreaded plague. Those filthy freshman can't even touch you when you're coated in a thick slimy shield of Purell.

Don't Touch Anyone

The carriers of the disease are everywhere - trust no one. Not your roommate, not your boyfriend, not your best friend. If you want to survive plague season you have to stay clear of people or walk around in a lycra suit - I'd go with the former, just saying.

Cover Your Mouth

And of course, avoid everyone else who's coughing. I don't know about you, but I don't want to partake in the party of spraying hundreds of millions of disease particles into the air at the speed of light. I'll stay in my safe sterile dorm room away from the illness.

Stock Up On Supplies

If it strikes you, you've got to be prepared. Get as much orange juice, cough drops and bottled water as you can - and don't forget the chicken noodle soup! Just like the zombie apocalypse, you have to have your defenses ready. Zombies are to the common cold as shotguns are to tissues.

Stay healthy this year!