Snooze Button=Life Ruiner

So I know you are probably getting tired of reading blogs that are as long as a chapter book, and I can't promise you that it won't continue to be that way, but for now, I'm just going to make this relatively short.... maybe.

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I was late to a class yesterday because I took the bus system. Contradictory to what you hear, the bus does not take you exactly where you need to go (at least not right away) If someone tells you that, they're lying. The bus has to make plenty of other stops before it's your turn to get off. That's that. So plan accordingly if you are on your way to class, or you will be 7 minutes late, and you will be marked tardy. And that's another thing. Before I came to college, everyone I knew who had gone to college before told me that professors and TA's don't care if you show up to class or not. "It's YOUR responsibilty," they said. THEN WHY WAS I COUNTED TARDY?! HMMM?! There ya go-- two perfect examples of something you hear that's probably not true.

Something similar happened to me again today. When I went to bed last night, I set my alarm for 8:30 this morning. So the alarm rang today, and you know how it is when you're too tired, and you smack that snooze button (don't deny it... we all do it...). I used to think that the person invented that snooze contraption was a genius. I've officially changed my mind. I'm not too fond of that person anymore. If it weren't for that person, I wouldn't have been 16 minutes late for my 9:30 am bio lab this morning. I woke up at 9:28, and it takes me 20 minutes to get there. So I'm sitting up in my bed, and I'm thinking to myself, "Is it really 9:22? I have a 9:30 class!! How does this happen?!?!? It takes me 20 minutes to get there, sooo... AHHHH!!!!!!" I jumped out of bed, changed my clothes, brushed my teeth, threw my books into my bag, and left. When I walked out the door, it was 9:33 am. I got to lab at 9:46, and the TA's had just finished taking roll call. And even though I was there, and completed today's lab assignment, I was still counted absent. *Now once again, I thought college professors and TA's didn't care!!!* Supposedly if I would have just emailed one of my TA's about my problem, they would have cut me some slack. WHO THINKS OF STUFF LIKE THAT WHEN THEY'RE FREAKING OUT AND THEIR ADRENALINE IS GOING INSANE?!?!....NOT ME! I guess if this happens to you-- instead of freaking out-- just stop and breathe for 2 seconds and think of anything you can do to make the situation easier on yourself or to prevent something like this from happening. Fortunately for me, but unfortunate for you, I can't give you advice when it comes to sleeping through a class and completely missing it because I haven't done that yet. But the way my luck is goin, it'll probably happen tomorrow....

I hate that snooze button.