#3: Zombie mode has become your default mode
Sleep deprivation my old friend, what are you doing to me? There's always this moment when I look into the mirror and see that you turned me into a zombie. No, I don't crave brains, but I do look just like I'm dead and very mindless. Yet I keep on going. I have no other choice. So there I go, dragging my feet, moving along at a snail's pace, physically present but with my mind back home in bed. Once finals come around, this way of surviving is the only way of 'living' I seem to know...

#4: Procrastinating has become an art form
A quick look inside my mind on an average Saturday: "Time to get to work. But first I'll check Blogger, so it can't distract me later on. Might as well check Twitter too then. And Instagram. Blgolovin'. Facebook. Oh, someone liked an article on some dead actor from the 50's, interesting! Or not. Actually this is even more boring than my homework.
Focus. Educational sociology. Deadline is next week...
I think I heard my phone. Was it my phone? Let me check real quick before I start working. Oooooh, my friend sent me a cat video! Better watch that first!
Morning is almost over now... Might as well start working after lunch."
Seriously, the minute I have to get to work, everything suddenly becomes so freaking interesting. Everything except my homework, that is...

#5: Skype sessions with your study group end in chaos
'Envy, you there?'
'Yeah, I'm here. I can see you.'
'I can see you too. Where's Debbie?'
'I don't know, I only see her profile picture. Where's Alex?'
'I'm here!'
'Oh, now I see you!'
'Guys? I can't see you!'
'Debbie? Why are you only a profile picture?'
'I don't know!'
A full hour later only one question regarding college has been answered, yet the biggest mystery is why Debbie is only a picture... The funny thing about my study group: no matter how chaotic our skype sessions are, we always end up top of the class.

#6: Words like 'sleep' and 'vacation' are the only things that spark your interest
'Envy, have you read that book?'
No reaction.
'Envy, can you pass the ketchup?'
No reaction.
'Envy, did you get good grades last semester?'
No reaction.
'Envy, are you going to do something fun in your vacation? Besides sleeping?'
'Vacation? God, I love vacation. I'm going to sleep 12 hours a night all vacation long.'

#7: Finally have time? Well, now you have no idea what to do with it
All the items on the To Do List are done. All the exams were written, all the books read, all the essays already graded... You've found the thing that's even more mythical than unicorns: time to yourself. You could do whatever you wanted... But what?
One hour pass
Another one passes.
And another one.
Half a day later you still don't know what to do with all the time you suddenly have, so you end up doing nothing...

Let me tell you this: there are days when I'm nothing but grateful to get an education like this. But on other days, when my hair is dirty, I can't sleep and my food is cheap and disgusting, I'd like nothing more than becoming a drop-out. Or a full-time blogger. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

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