Where's My Teddy?

It’s amazing how much college and preschool actually have in common. There’s the point that it’s the first time in your life that you’re away from your parents for a significant amount of time. It is also a process of preparing you for what’s next in your life. There’s also the fact that you constantly find yourself fighting with your new friends over their attempted use of your possessions.


However, the commonality I wish to explain in more detail is nap time. It regularly becomes unusually quite in my suite around 4:00 every afternoon. This is most likely due to the fact that we are done with classes for the day, and thanks to the late nights we have, we are exhausted. By this time most of us have set our alarms to 6:15 (dinner time) and passed out in our beds.


My roommate and I lovingly refer to this 2-3 hour time frame as Coma Time. We put on our P.J. pants we had just taken off a few hours prior and hop into bed, immediately entering an unconscious state. After sleeping through dinner a few times we made sure never to do this without setting an alarm first. I think the only difference between college and preschool students is that we look forward to this point in our day while they dread it.