Like every good college blogger, I've decided to put off my last few finals for a little while in order to bring you another wonderful post. As appropriate to the season, today's topic is sickness. But this isn't just any old sickness where you wrap up, take a few days off and watch Netflix for 12 hours straight while you give your body time to recuperate. No my fellow students, this is finals sickness. That dreaded, un-diagnosable funk that sets in right around the week before the big tests and doesn't seems to fade all the way until you've made it back home.
I'm sure it's the stress, the change in temperature, the weather, the procrastinating, heck even the barometric pressure, but something about finals season seems to drain the body. First it may start as just a common cold, maybe not that severe. Then you realize that semester-long, 14-page paper you were supposed to be tackling all these months is just some pathetic list of sources you though about one day reading. Now that little pre-finals cold is a full blown flu that tries to take over all your remaining energy.
The worst part is you can't just choose to sit this round out to drink hot tea and nap for six hours, you've got things to do, presentations to give, teachers to beg. So you've got to tough it out, suffer through it, and drug up on DayQuil til your nose goes numb.
So good luck on your finals everyone, hope you all get well soon...
