I have spent the past week– my last real week of college EVER– coughing, sneezing, and sounding like a fifty-year-old chain smoker whenever I speak. This was not exactly the best time for me to come down with a sudden illness. While everyone else was out at the bars each night soaking up every last bit of freedom college has to offer, I was in bed wiping my nose and trying to sleep off my splitting headache.

But, I refused to miss out on senior festivities this weekend. In general, I consider myself a pretty healthy person and I don’t get sick very often. Therefore, I am completely clueless when it comes to which over the counter medications I should take, how much I should take, and how often. Luckily for me, one of my roommates is a walking medicine cabinet and provided me with a different drug to combat each of my symptoms.

The one thing I quickly realized was that these medications caused me to have a very different reaction to alcohol.

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