Eating, Getting sick in college

shelovescliche
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:26:53 +0000

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.

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.

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.

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.