You should get eight hours of sleep per night. 

But first, you have to finish an assignment by midnight. And don’t forget to socialize with your roommates for a little while before starting that assignment. Oh—and before you socialize, make sure you cook yourself a healthy meal, prioritizing protein and whole foods. But make sure the meal isn’t too large. You want to be constantly losing weight.

Before you come home to make dinner, you should be in the library, your water bottle filled beside you as you study. Are you studying? You really should be. Your laptop is open, and so is your book. 

You definitely should not be scrolling on Instagram in the library, despite this being your first time to yourself all day. Because, before studying, you made sure to meet your requisite social hours and grab coffee with a friend. Your friend ordered a black coffee, so you couldn’t order the matcha latte you had planned. You don’t need the calories if they don’t. Two black coffees. And look at that—you managed to skip lunch “accidentally.” You grabbed coffee right after class. Caffeine will tide you over.

You also need to watch your caffeine intake—you already had a coffee in the previous class, so you could pay attention. You also had what felt like 4,000 emails to respond to, and that reading for tomorrow—you could do it now. No. You need to pay attention. The course content is really interesting. But you have emails.

In your first class, you had to take notes completely by hand, and the professor moved quickly through the slides. Did you eat before this class? Of course not. You ran out of time. Good thing you grabbed a coffee between the gym and class. Preferably, you had time to shower and change between the gym and class. You should look nice for class.

But you also need to make sure you go to the gym. You need to do cardio and lift. Each day, you should be lifting more weight, progressively overloading. You need to watch your cortisol, though. You should rest. But an object in motion stays in motion.

You think about this on your walk from your house to the gym.

Before the gym, you had to wake up, change, and put on some sweat-proof makeup. While searching for socks, you realized you needed to do laundry. You didn’t have time, though. You needed to drink water and prepare your books for the day before leaving. You needed to leave for the gym in 15 minutes.

You woke up 30 minutes ago. You need to prioritize a slow morning and combat stress. You shouldn’t go on your phone when you wake up.

But you need to check your email.

Did that assignment ever make it in by midnight last night?

You should have gotten eight hours of sleep.