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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UTSA chapter.

I’d like to tell you about how I start my day with a bit of sunrise yoga, then move into an hour of gratitude journaling whistle sipping on some lemon water. But I have to be real, that’s not how my mornings usually go…like ever. This, however, is what my mornings tend to look like:

 

6 AM ━ Wake up:

 

Shock that I’m actually awake:

 

Confusion because it’s now 6:30 AM and my second alarm is going off and I have no idea what happened to the past 30 minutes:

 

Disorientation as I stumble to the bathroom:

 

Panic as my third alarm starts blaring from my room, with the door wide open, while I’m still in the bathroom worrying it’s going to wake my roommate up:

 

Ponderance as to whether my roommate is even in her room because her light is always on…?

 

Unsurprised when I look in the mirror and see my under eyes looking even more shadowed and corpse-like:

 

Annoyance when my fourth alarm goes off and it’s already 7 AM and all I’ve done was fumble around half asleep:

 

7:30 AM ━ Already fading fast but at least by now I’m either making breakfast or heading out the door to get it:

 

Somehow it’s now 8:30 AM, the food is gone, and now I have a burst of energy…or so I think:

 

I’m not sure what time it usually happens, but remember that burst of energy I mentioned before? Yeah, that was a joke! I’m dead now. All function is gone━I’m a zombie and it takes me an unnecessary amount of time to do simple tasks.

 

10 AM ━ Finally, the golden hour! It’s crunch time now which means that anything important basically needs to be done now. The rest of my morning may be a flop but now is show time.

 

Now I know what you may be thinking, why not just sleep in until 10 AM? Well, it’s simple, I don’t think I’d be able to be as productive as I am if I slept in, plus I am productive sometimes before 10 AM, this was just a glimpse of my past week which was a bit of a rough one for me.

Sydney is a senior majoring in Sociology with a minor in Psychology. She's an avid Youtube watcher and Netflix binger. Sydney's a lover of YA fiction, especially dystopian series, and she can often be found around campus, with earphones in, listening to an audiobook. As someone that is forever getting lost in books, she thought it was time to share her own stories and opinions.
Lauren is currently a senior at UTSA who is obsessed with anything involving music and pop culture. She is one of the Campus Correspondents for HC UTSA, and is in charge of social media and editing. You can catch her traveling across the country for concerts, eating Whataburger fries, or constantly scrolling through her social media feeds.