5:30 am, beep beep beep. 6:00 am, beep beep beep. 6:30 am, beep beep beep. 7:00 am, *wakes up, yawns, looks at clock*, “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

We’ve all been there.

Prior to the start of this year my sister had the ‘mom-job’ of waking me up every morning. Now that she is off to college, I’m on my own. In the start of the year my clock alarm was all I needed. I set it to wake me up at 6:00 am, and I did just as I was supposed to, until that one morning…

The morning where instead of waking up at 6, I woke up at 7:30. Sprinting around my house I managed to get some type of socially acceptable clothes on my body, do something with my cave-woman bed head, and get out the door. And that was my first unexcused lateness this year. Since then I have had another, and plenty of close calls.

I have even upgraded my system of waking up to 2 alarms. My clock alarm ringing at 5:30, and my phone alarm ringing at 5:50, in hopes that I get up by 6. Unfortunately, the success rate of this system is not much better than my first one.

What’s worse is the way you feel for the rest of the day. You get to science and, of course, there’s a pop quiz. You are so disoriented from your rushed morning, the focus and all the notes you took the class before have gone out the door. But how could the day get any worse? So you get to gym and wonder what that smell is. You figure it must be the the locker room, it always stinks. But nope, not today. Today, you come to realize that in the morning bustle you forgot to put deodorant on. Fantastic.

It is inevitable that you will feel like a hot mess for the rest of the day.

The shock of waking up 45 minutes later than you are supposed to is enough to cause a heart attack. Mixing that with high schoolers sleep insomnia and the nurses will have a serious affliction on their hands.