Get your tissues and Nyquil ready! Fairfield is close to experiencing cold and flu season. Who’s excited?
Not me. I don’t have much to be worried about though. I’m one of those kids that never gets sick. I could hang out in a room with ten kids that have strep throat and probably not get it at all. Weird right?
I’m aware that I can’t blame someone for being sick, but for god’s sake, please stop wiping your nose on the sleeve of your sweatshirt. I hate being around sick people. Don’t cough into your hands and ask me for a pen. I literally dread flu season, just because I have to listen to sniffling people during my classes. So gross.
One thing I really don’t understand is the Fairfield Health Center. I mean, it’s a little out of the way…don’t you think if someone has the flu, they’re not going to be able to trek all the way to the edge of campus through the snow? Sure, you can call someone from the Health Center to come pick you up, but who wants to look like a lazy bum to the student drivers?
I know Fairfield had the Flu Shot clinic for all students, but do we really think that 100% of our school got the shot? I don’t think so. There’s still the world outside of Fairfield that can contaminate our perfect, little college universe.
Unfortunately, I’ve already seen the start of the sickness trend. Poor iPhone Guy was just sick this past weekend. And seriously, being sick on the weekends is like taking candy from a child. The weekend is the reward that students get for doing homework and going to classes all week. But, when you’re sick, it’s all work and no reward. It sucks that you have to watch all of your friends pregame before the townhouses and beach. It sucks even more because these said friends are probably in YOUR room, making a mess of YOUR desk, eating YOUR food, when all you want to do is sleep…which is something so valuable and rare for the average college kid’s weekend.
But let’s face it- college is a breeding ground for germs. You hug your friends, you kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend, you touch the railings on the stairs, you share books with your classmates, and you use the computers at the library. It’s not possible to stop these daily interactions. This doesn’t even begin to talk about living with a sick roommate.
Inevitably, if your roommate is sick, you’ll get sick within the next few days, and soon enough, all your friends are dropping like flies. A cough and sneeze is all it takes for your roommate to transfer their flu right into your body. But what are you going to do? Ask him or her to wear a mask around the room? Put them in a bubble? It’d be nice to be able to do that, but logically, it’s not possible. We gotta work with what we got. All you can do is pray for the best, and overload on Vitamin C and Robitussin.
-Sent from my BlackBerry
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