Ladies and gentlemen, behold the inevitable:

You can feel it coming, the scratchy sore throat, muscle aches, maybe a dry cough, headache, or lethargy. You’re not going to give in to it. Denial. “I am not sick!” Except that you are. Is it that same cold that took over your friend last week? Maybe it was your little cousin with the runny nose over the holiday. However it happened, it happened and you haven’t got time to deal with this. You want it to just go away.

This is from the Harvard University Health Services website, which among other things, also has a handy list of “Things that don’t describe my life.” Except they split it up into two lists and called them “Prevention” and “Self-care Tips” for cold and flu. I read it and promptly forgot about it, and woke up the next morning with what seemed like sand in my throat.

Two weeks, two midterms, three Kleenex(TM) Family Packs, and an unquantifiable amount of misery later, I’ve accumulated a large pile of sodden tissues on one side of my desk, and a larger pile of unfinished work on the other. There is a lesson to be had in this: should have gone to Stanford. Also, I still don’t know which part of UHS I see to cure the syndrome that compels one to take long walks around campus in zero degree weather instead of sleeping, taking vitamins, or drinking water. Psychiatry?

To keep my complaints in context, grab a few laughs over at our most reliable news source (hint: it’s not FOX).