Dean D'Agati (dotcom)

I’m the kind of person where if I wake up late, or something is causing me to be late to class, I might as well take my time and be REALLY late to class. I’m already late right? But this morning, the first day of second semester and the first day of my new classes was really not a good time to use my “really late” theory of living.

I had class at 9:30 AM. Being the first day day and all, I set my iPhone alarm for 8 just to be safe. It went off as expected, so I hit snooze, as expected. It came back 9 minutes later to which I hit snooze again. But this time, it never came back.

I don’t know if I accidentally shut it off or what (I’ve been using it as my alarm clock since high school) but the next thing I know, it’s 9:10, I’m still in bed, and I live 20 blocks (about a 20 minute walk) from the building I need to be at.

I jumped out of bed, brushed my teeth, did the morning routine stuff in about 10 minutes and left the room at 9:20. Long story short: I got to class 2 minutes early! There happened to be an available cab right outside which I hopped in, paid the driver way too much, and made it to Tisch with two minutes to spare.

Tomorrow class starts at 11… so hopefully day 2 will go a little smoother.

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