{"id":62,"date":"2012-09-19T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/taylor\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-09-19T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:37:00","slug":"the-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/taylor\/2012\/09\/the-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sick\"<\/a>

A last ditch effort to survive<\/p><\/div>\n

I bounded from the bus, ran up three flights of stairs, and quickly locked my door. \u00a0I kept my shoes and jacket on as I wrapped myself up in a blanket and prayed it would not come. \u00a0I took my vitamins, drank some orange juice, made some tea, washed my hands. And then I washed them again. \u00a0I breathed in cautiously and kept to myself. I vacuumed, scrubbed, wiped, sprayed, and I even said a few words to God, but still it came.<\/p>\n

I woke up on Monday with the sniffles. And I mean the watery eyes, runny nose, sore throat, why am I even alive and do I have to go to class sniffles.<\/p>\n

Like a kindergarten classroom, the residence halls are a breeding ground for foreign germs. \u00a0This past week was literally a domino effect of one girl after the other coming down with some form of a cold. \u00a0And it takes no prisoners. All our conversation has revolved around football, the temperature of the room and how much Dayquil is in our medicine cabinet.<\/p>\n

I wish I could offer you some piece of advice on how to avoid the campus epidemic that is rumored to have reached the apartments already but I can’t. \u00a0Most likely you’ll find yourself standing in someone’s room decked out in winter attire with a mug of black apricot tea at least once before December. But your hat probably won’t be as awesome as mine.<\/p>\n

\"Male<\/a>

Minus the earrings I’m a hottie<\/p><\/div>\n

Unless you’re a guy- on both counts. Not only do you tend to have amazing hat collections, but while us ladies have been pulling out the sweaters I’ve noticed you are still in shorts. \u00a0So I guess if I\u00a0had\u00a0<\/em>to offer some advice, it would be to become a boy. Then you wouldn’t get sick and you’d be warm all the time.<\/p>\n

I wonder\u2026would I make a cute male? I imagine with the right stache anything is possible…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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