<p>What do most people eat in their college years? What does typical dorm food consist of?</p>
<p>When you get sick in college, is there medical care available on campus? Do most people get sick more often in college than in hs?</p>
<p>Also, what is the typical routine for a college student?</p>
<p>I am in high school btw, so excuse my naivety. Thank you.</p>
<p>I can tell u from my experience on my UCI stay-over and from my friend at UCI told me.</p>
<p>According to my friend:
Dorm food gets pretty old after a while, sure it’s great but after eating it so often (even if it’s good food) it gets old. Food consists of breakfast, lunch, dinner.
All with entrees, drinks, fruits, coffee, etc.
You pay a meal plan each year and must use all the meals.</p>
<p>Anyhow, my friend told me that the food-related problem comes from OVEREATING, since all meals are in a “buffet” style, it’s easily to eat more than what’s needed.
So you end up having congestion, indigestion, etc.</p>
<p>From personal experience, Most if not all colleges have a health care center for its students, I’ve seen colleges with full hospitals (like UCLA) and others with just a health center consisting of ER, consultations, psychological specialists, and even surgery.</p>
<p>From my stay-over program College life can either be fun or boring.
I saw a lot of kids who have the same “style” everyday; go to class, eat, hang out, study, then go home on weekends.</p>
<p>Others are more into clubs, fraternities, hanging around and doing activities.
I personally saw that being involved with more activities makes the college experience worth it.</p>
<p>Anyways, that’s all I got, you should check out a stay-over program at the college u want to go to.</p>
<p>Perhaps you could visit a college for a day shadowing another student.</p>
<p>What do I eat? Well, pretty much whatever the dining hall serves given that on-campus students are required to be on a full meal plan at my college. For breakfast that’s cereal, donuts, muffins, yogurt, fruit, eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast (sticks), sausages, soup, milk, juices, sodas, etc. For lunch and dinner it’s a rotation of four hot meals (2 meat, 2 vegetarian), pizza, burgers, sandwiches, salad, soups, fruit and desert.</p>
<p>We have a health center staffed with a number of nurses and nurse practitioners and two part-time doctors, along with GYN care, several counselors and a psychiatrist.</p>
<p>Students do seem to get more sick in college than in high school. I assume that’s because college students live so close together with so many other people. For example, when one person in a dorm catches some contagious disease, it usually doesn’t take long until several other people in that dorm have it as well because students are sharing bathrooms etc. When you get sick in college, do your classmates a favor and do not come to class for exactly the same reason.</p>
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<li><p>Food on campus varies, there’s usually more than one dining hall - each offering different foods. I.E. At my old campus, there was a Subways, a Hot Wings restaurant, a pizzeria, a snack cart, a Java Joe (like Starbucks but cheaper) and then three main dining halls: one that served all organic food, one that was quick service (salads, wraps, pizza, pasta, sandwiches, smoothies, etc.), and the last that had ethnic food (Chinese, Italian, Indian, African, etc.)
There were hoards of places to eat and then also a grocery store on campus.</p></li>
<li><p>There is usually a small clinic on campus that can treat you. However common sense dictates that for severe illnesses or injury you should go to a hospital that may be better equipped. </p></li>
<li><p>Here is my routine:
Wake-up >> Exercise >> Class >> Procrastinate >> Internship >> Procrastinate >> Exercise >> Procrastinate >> Go out >> Procrastinate >> Sleep >> Cram for x-test two hours before.</p></li>
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<p>People have answered the food question thoroughly, but you should look into health care on campus when considering your choice. My school has a tiny health center that isn’t even open at all at night. If somebody gets legitimately sick they have to be transported by ambulance to the hospital because the facilities suck. I’ve also know someone who went there and while the nurses were trying to figure out what was wrong, he saw that they were on WebMD.com. It’s really not good at all, considering right now I have a pretty bad infection and I can’t be seen by an actual doctor until Monday, because there are only nurses on weekends and they can’t actually perform any tests.</p>
<p>I agree with hyperJulie’s suggestion. Check out the health services at the school before you decide on it. Mine’s pretty much the same–our clinic’s only open until 3 or 4 on weekdays and not at all on weekends, plus the doctor is only here once a week.</p>
<p>I had to go to the hospital for my asthma one night, and it was an awful experience–2 hours of sitting in the waiting room (which has never happened to me before while I’m on the verge of having an asthma attack), 2 hours of waiting for the doctor to come tell me that my X-ray was clear so I should go. Needless to say, I won’t be going back to the hospital any time soon if I can help it, but it would really help if my school had a better health clinic.</p>
<p>As for getting sick, it happens quite frequently in college. In high school I might get one or two colds in the entire school year; fall semester I was sick 3 times, and this semester I’m on my second cold in a month. Winters are pretty brutal here in terms of sickness.</p>
<p>And as for something someone else said, at some schools it’s not possible to just stay in your dorm whenever you’re sick. At my school all the professors have very strict attendance policies, some only allow two absences before you’re dropped or fail out, so if you can get out of bed most people end up going to class regardless of being sick.</p>