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Being too tired to use a spoon, so free-pouring coffee into your mug and putting in far too much.
Being so tired you light the wrong end of your cigarette.

Being stressed about the colour of your teeth due to the cigarettes and coffee and being overzealous with your brushing and it hurting.
Being so overzealous you get toothpaste froth on your jeans and don't notice the suspicious white mark until you are in some sort of social situation and you catch an uncomfortable glance at your crotch.
Spending the rest of your time attempting (though you know the futulity of it) to get rid of the mark.

Running far too late for something important so having to get a taxi you can't afford there.
Getting there late anyway and thinking you could have just saved £10 by getting the bus which would have likely taken the same amount of time.
Judging it will take 20 minutes to walk somewhere but it really takes an hour.

Forgetting to eat and drinking coffee instead and getting the shakes.
Forgetting to eat and drinking coffee instead and feeling that horrible nauseous feeling.
Forgetting to eat and drinking coffee instead and getting such a caffeine rush you can't write properly in your notes with your pen.

Spending 2 hours in the library and writing a grand total of 10 words in your essay.
Taking back the 5 reference books dejectedly realising you didn't even open them once.

Swiping your Matriculation card the wrong way when you try to go to the Library Café and feeling like a fresher fool.

Deciding to go out on a weeknight, even though you know you have anatomy in the morning which you will feel extremely awful for.
Agonising over what clothes to wear, but wearing the standard usual get-up.
Agonising over what to do with your hair, but do the same style you do every day.

Getting far too drunk and feeling sick.
Trying to drink water to sober up, even though you know quite fine well that is not an antidote.
Making out with someone you probably shouldn't, but doing it anyway because "Who cares? We're young?"
Realising that you're actually growing up now.


Continuing to be a student in denial about growing up. ad infinitum.