Swine Flu

So, freshman year was going very well and everything was all good. Then it was all taken from me in the blink of an eye. By a swine.

Yes, I had the dreaded swine flu. I’ve never had a history of getting sick often or anything like that, so I thought it would be almost impossible for me to get it. My immune system was too high and I was too healthy. Foolish me. Like a slap in the face I got the swine flu and was headed back home to Winston-Salem, entirely too far away from the place I really wanted to be. The weird thing about it though, it wasn’t that bad. I had heard so many horrible things about the swine flu so when I was diagnosed as having it, I feared the worst. I didn’t feel bad at the time but I knew the pain would come and it would wreck havoc with reckless abandon. To my surprise, and relief, that never came. Don’t get me wrong, I still felt pretty bad (fever over 103, sore throat, coughing, etc.) but it was nowhere near as bad as advertised.

It gave me a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep which I had been lacking because of too many partying opportunities. It gave me a chance to play some Madden. It gave me a chance to actually sit down, or lie down rather, and watch some TV. It gave me a chance to be home and get over that tiny ounce of me that, though I’ll never admit it, actually missed being home. It gave me a chance to just take some time away from everything and just chill. But most of all, it gave me a chance to really miss UNC.

Once I came back, my longing to be back turned into longing to be away again. I was bombarded with an insane amount of work that I had to make up, much of which I am still trying to catch up on to this day. I had never been so overwhelmed with so much work in my life. I had to drop my calculus two class because I had missed way too much to even try to learn all the equations and stuff I missed.

My recommendation: although missing class and not having to do anything at all sounds great (and believe me it was), it isn’t worth the stress and hassle of making everything up. Stay away from the swine.