The College Sick Day

by Jesse Beyer

Being sick in high school is a lot different from being sick in college.  When I was in high school I loved sick days.  I would even say I was sick to just take a day off.  If you didn’t go to class, a friend would bring you your homework, and your mom would make you soup, it was awesome.  You could sit on the couch with a blanket and watch “The Price is Right,” with no worries.  Not the same scenario now.  I took a sick day this week.  In college you sit at home by yourself.  Your responsible for your own meals, and laundry, and homework.  I took for granted the sick days I was lucky enough to have experienced before living on my own.  To any high school kids reading this, don’t make the same mistake I did by battling the day with a cold.  Use every sneeze, sniffle, and cough as an excuse to get a sick day.  Because one day you will actually be sick, and responsible for own survival, and it sucks…

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