Eating, Getting sick in college

b_r_um
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:30:17 +0000

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.

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.

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.