Blog 33: Relevant

Eating disorders and doing other harm to your body is very relevant to many college students.  College is a whole new lifestyle compared to what many people experienced in high school.  There are light night study sessions, parties, more stress, more pressure, etc.  It’s not uncommon for college freshman to gain the infamous freshman 15 or 25.  On nights out drinking many people end up at the nearest pizza place or taco bell or anywhere they can get some cheap, good, greasy food.  This makes people gain weight and a lot of girls and some men develop eating disorders as a result because they think that it’s the only way to lose weight.  Drinking and doing drugs is also a common way that college aged individuals do harm to their bodies.  Drinking is an extremely common activity and on any given Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday you can find many students engaging in activities involving alcohol.  Many people don’t know their limit when drinking and end up blacking out, passing out, getting alcohol poisoning, and doing things that they normally wouldn’t do if they were sober.  Also, drugs are a common thing amongst students on campus.  I know many people that do all sorts of drugs including, marijuana, a bunch of different types of pills, and even sometimes acid.  I feel like getting your hands on these things in our day and age is easy and many people abuse it.  Since all of these are familiar to college students I think that this topic is relevant.