Eating, Getting sick in college

haikumarukuchan
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:20:50 +0000

I can tell u from my experience on my UCI stay-over and from my friend at UCI told me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyways, that’s all I got, you should check out a stay-over program at the college u want to go to.