Author: Jacky Falkenberg
We all know what it’s like: you wake up in your cozy, warm bed with absolutely no motivation to get up. In fact, if you could, you might just stay there forever. But somehow, everyday (or most), we end up making the decision to slowly ease out of our happy place. So what exactly gets us to that point?
1. Knowing you’ll have coffee in the next hour
Let’s face it. You know you need to get stuff done, and that latte is calling your name all the way from the library.
2. Classes that take attendance
There’s nothing like having attendance count towards your grade to get you out of bed in the morning. Your future grade calls!
3. This isn’t my bed?
You may have had a little too much fun last night…and you’re ready to book it and pretend it never happened in the first place.
4. The smell of bacon on the stove
There’s nothing like the good old smell of brunch cooking to get you out of bed in the morning. After all, food always comes before sleep.
5. Remembering that essay you forgot to submit the night before
Even though you stayed up the whole perfecting your paper, you forgot to press the submit button. Nothing like a nightmare-come-true to make you not want to sleep anymore.
6. Getting woken up by your friends
For those times when getting out of bed isn’t really your choice.
7. Getting up to turn on the heating so your room is no longer an igloo
There isn’t anything worse than waking up and realizing your room has decided it wants to prepare you for living in Antarctica.
8. Having to pee (really badly)
As much as you try to trick yourself into thinking you don’t need to use the bathroom, your body seems to get the best of you.
9. Knowing you have friends coming over soon and you still haven’t cleaned your room
You only have twenty minutes before your guests arrive, your room is still a mess, and there’s nothing left to do but hide it all.
10. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
After all, who needs the real world anyway?
Jacky’s column Surviving the Slope is about finding the best kale, learning to love excruciating pain, and getting swole at Helen Newman. Whether your goal is to stay fit during the winter or simply avoid the freshman 15, Surviving the Slope will give you all the inside tips you need to build a healthier you.
