At around 2 AM Friday (China time), I found myself lying on the bathroom floor.

It was a typical Thursday for the most part. After school, I spent most of my time at the coffee shop I study in every night. After having chugged down my third bottle of coffee, I was heading home when I realized my teeth was clenching in the icy wind. I hesitated, wanting to pick up my phone to ask my dad to pick me up, but at that precise moment my iPhone hit my favorite song - Crooked by GDragon => YOLO and I began sprinting home like a gangster. Not surprisingly, it was a bad choice and I was basically half-dead and paralyzed after I got home until midnight, when I finally had the energy to go put on my contacts and sleep.

When I woke up, I felt an extreme sensation of nausea. I used whatever energy I could muster to put on as much clothes as I can, almost puking twice in the process. As I entered the bathroom and closed the door, I lost conscious and the next thing I knew I was on the ground. I managed to get up and sit there for no-one-knows how long, not moving a centimeter, until I finally leapt outside to the sofa, where I called my dad in the bedroom to come out.

I had a high fever. Darn.

I had to miss school, including the AP Stats test that will basically determine my fate for this course, a Chinese presentation, and a meeting with my English teacher.

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While blacking out is honestly not something be proud of, I'm quite pleased to have reached the milestone of having reached my physical limits, a testament to my efforts. Now the next step is to increase efficiency, provided that I'm still giving as much as I can, in order to truly maximize my potential.

...which means time to rethink my life habits. Perhaps that room where I sleep in, that has scratch paper covering over a third of the view, and through which I have to scavenge for my schoolwork every night, is a good place to start...