1. Drink upwards of five espresso shots per day throughout the entire month of December because it is JUST SO DELICIOUS. And you have to take full advantage of the quality while you can, right? Because we all know the stuff on campus is equivalent to doing mud shooters.

2. Drink no coffee at all on your first day back at school. Because you’re too cool for withdrawal, right?

3. Also drink no water. Water bottles are for pansies.

4. Be extremely exhausted already because if a whole set of new courses and readings aren’t enough for you, your flight was delayed by three hours and you collapsed  made it back to your dorm seven hours before your first class.

This is what you should do instead:

1. Skip that two hour FIST screening because you are about to vomit all over your friends. Migraines are no joke, kids. Also, I’m sorry to all of you film buffs, but I can tell you right now that this course is on par with computer science for me. And I won’t even show you the bruise I got from that class.

(apparently when you bang your head into a wall every day while studying it leaves a mark)

2. GO DRINK SOME DELICIOUS COFFEE. If you find yourself in Edmonton, Alberta (not that I recommend it), hit up Credo Cafe on 104 st and Jasper ave. I’m not enough of a Vancouverite to properly recommend cafes but Elysian on fifth & Burrard makes my heart sing.