An Expert’s Guide to: The Sunday Scaries
It’s that day again… The day you dread more than anything else. The scariest day imaginable, and I’m not talking Halloween or Friday the 13th. It’s Sunday.
Oh, what’s that feeling? Is it the contents of your stomach roiling? Is it a wave of existential angst washing over you? Technically, yes - but it’s really the fear that tomorrow is Monday.
If you’re anything like me, you probably like to go out on Saturday nights. You also, then, wake up Sunday morning (or afternoon really) feeling like shit and having not touched a single bit of your homework. Given that I’ve done this every weekend for the last two semesters, I’m starting to get smart - not smart enough to change my habits, but smart enough to develop a system on how to handle the Sunday Scaries.
Inevitably, you’re gonna set an overly ambitious alarm for some crazy time like 9 a.m. . You are also going to sleep through that alarm and every subsequent alarm until it’s noon and your dehydrated ass is barely even conscious. But hey, barely conscious is still conscious - and waking up is the hardest part, so congrats. Now on to your 37 assignments.
The first thing you’re gonna wanna do is chug as much water as physically possible. It may not sound appealing, but you’re gonna need all the hydration you can get if you’re to make it to Monday. You should also eat ASAP - I know the existential dread of a million compounding deadlines is gonna overwhelm you for a little while, but you really should eat. So if you’re feeling terrible, hit up the Ratty and run into way too many people and leave feeling even more overwhelmed. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can go to Bagel Gourmet (RIP Bagel Gourmet Brook St) and enjoy a delicious, cream-cheesey snack while you experience your mental breakdown. Maybe snag something with electrolytes too, because it never seems to hurt.
Now that you’ve completed such necessary steps as waking up and getting fed, you can really get into the nitty gritty. So the next step is this: Grind. Just do your goddamn work. It’s gonna suck and you might get tired of it, but you have to get it done. Well, alternatively you could just not do it, but if that were really an option you wouldn’t have the Sunday Scaries to begin with. So just take little breaks to snack and socialize, but really focus on your work. Whether that’s alone in the Rock or with your friends in a lounge doesn’t matter. And I promise you’ll feel better when you read the last page of that Marx reading or finish that last chem problem. You’ll feel so good that you might even forget how much the day sucked, and choose to procrastinate and stay up late next weekend too. And if you do (which you inevitably will), you know where to find this guide again.
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