Prompt: It's almost midnight and you're approaching the deadline for an important college assignment, but what you don't realize is that while you were focusing on your studies, a zombie apocalypse started outside.
SOMETIMES I REGRET GOING TO COLLEGE. ESPECIALLY IN times like this where I am up almost all night working on an assignment.
There is also the crippling debt I'm in but that's for future me to worry about.
Present me has two essays due tonight that I just started working on. One of them I breezed right through while the second one has me wanting to smash my laptop against a wall. But I didn't. The biggest reason being that I like my laptop and I don't have another couple hundred dollars to drop into a laptop.
My laptop does have a warranty, but I doubt that the warranty people cover rage fits over college.
I let out a sigh before going into the kitchen to make myself something to eat along with brew myself a cup of tea. I put the kettle on the stove and tossed a steak and cheese hot pocket in the microwave before sitting down to wait.
Yeah, I liked college. It's a much better environment and the professors here aren't assholes like the teachers at high school.
So, while I am stressing over this late essay it won't make me fail by any means. It'll just dock late points, but I hate docked points.
I worked my ass off to get into this college and I need to maintain the GPA that I have.
I was cursed with burnout since coming to college. I burned myself out getting into college and now I'm reaping the consequences. I've had multiple pieces of work that I turn in minutes before the deadline.
The microwave beeped and I took the hot pocket out and removed it from its wrapper and set it on a plate. My kettle screamed at the same time, and I poured the hot water into a cup where a tea bag was waiting for it.
With tea in one hand and my midnight snack in the other I made my way back to my laptop.
I had taken out the steak and cheddar hot pocket to eat. Frozen food had become a staple in my diet at this point. I did have those appliances for dorm rooms, but food is expensive and it's always easy to just buy frozen food, ramen, or mac and cheese in a cup. It may not be healthy but who cares?
I went back to work on my essay and put my headphones on to listen to my music. Music helps me concentrate better.
I ended up getting buried into the essay and the music blocked out any other noise. Typically, that wouldn't be an issue but tonight it was.
I would switch back and forth between my hot pocket, my tea, and then the essay I was writing.
I was so wrapped up in my own world I didn't even notice the panicked students running about outside. I didn't even notice the goddamn zombie apocalypse happening outside my dorm.
My parents used to joke that when I get focused I could miss the roof caving in around me. I never knew just how true it was.
Just as the deadline appeared I hit submit on the essay officially saving myself from any late docked points. Now I just have to have my professor give me a good grade. I took the last bite of my hot pocket and then a sip of my tea before removing my headphones.
Removing my headphones was like slipping into another world.
Gone was the peaceful music and instead my ears were assaulted by the sounds of sirens outside. Now with my head in the game I looked up to see abandoned cop cars outside.
You know smart things can be complicated. If I just stayed in my room, it could be seen as smart but also stupid for when zombies break my door down and devour me before I could fight back. But then again going outside isn't much better.
