Blog 4: Dine Up

Along with the school work, and making friends, and anything else you might have learned throughout these blogs, don’t forget to eat. As I mentioned in a previous blog you can use the dining hall to make new friends and since you are the only person in control of your schedule you decided if you want to go to breakfast. You need to find the breaks in your schedule to make time to eat. For me I have two classes that end around 12:00 and then I have an hour break until my next class. I use that time to go get lunch, and since eating doesn’t always take an hour, I might use some time to do the calculus homework I didn’t do the night before. If you play a sport you need to balance when you go to eat, and if you sport is more intensive maybe you eat something light before practice and then a nice dinner after. The only down side to the dining had beside the mediocre food that is has, is the hours. I wish the dining hall was open longer than it is specifically because of practice and sports. When I was on the bowling team we would get back to campus around 7:00 and the dining hall closed at 8:00. That should be fine right? You have an hour to eat. But the worst part is that there wouldn’t be any good food left. The football team would eat everything around 7:00 and since there was only an hour left until they closed the cooks would just grill up some hamburgers and fry some fries. This food get really old really fast, and you will miss home cooked meals so much more than you ever expected to. The only advice I have for you is make sure you room has snacks. You can eat a good breakfast and a good lunch but when dinner hits you might not have the best options to eat. Keep some junk food by try and keep some healthier options too. I love fresh fruit, so when the dinning hall has apples I’ll take on and keep it in my room as a midnight snack. Chips and pretzels are always good to munch on and they keep forever. Since you will probably have a mini fridge, you can try and go to your local grocery store to get things like fresh fruit. I don’t have a car on campus so it s a little hard to make trips. That is all the advice I have for this blog but stay tuned for the tips coming in the next one.