Student on TikTok Sees She’s Late to Every Class After Watching Taped Sessions

Research has indicated that it takes anywhere from 18–254 days for something to become a habit. The “golden number” however is 66 days. So if you’re trying to force yourself to make some changes in your life, like taking a multivitamin every day, eating healthier, or lighting fireworks in your backyard before you start your workday to kick off things right, then you’ll need to do it consistently for a little over two months.

The same, unfortunately, goes for not-so-good habits. Like impulse buying dinosaur toys at Target (guilty) every time you visit what-Walmart-should’ve-been, or, you know, crack. Consistent tardiness is another habit that’s pretty disrespectful and is a hard one to break when you always convince yourself, in a bad direction, that you have more time than you really do.

Sometimes it’s difficult to learn these lessons, as we tend to give ourselves excuses and outs for being late to something, whether it’s gatherings with friends, or — as seen with TikToker @christinemarie1509 — showing up to class.

But it’s how she came to grips with her classroom tardiness that’s tickling a bunch of people pink on TikTok right now.

In the now viral clip that’s been liked over 880,000 times, Christine can be seen walking into a bunch of classes clearly late, as it’s already commenced and there are tons of other students already seated and ready to get their learning on. Appended to the video is a caption that reads “this is embarrassing.”

In the video, a text overlay reads: “I just realized every recorded lecture has a clip of me arriving late to class.” She adds, “And I have the audacity to sit in the front every class.”