Freshmen 15
Freshmen 15Imagine living in one place all of your life. In this place you have a home, a family, friends, activities that you have committed yourself to and possibly even a car. You feel safe in this place and most likely have developed an everyday rut of doing things. Change doesn’t happen often in this place and if it does the transition of one thing to the next is uneventful. Well, this is all about to change. You are now going to be uprooted from your place, your home, your family, your friends and your activities, just to be placed in a new environment full of change. Let the old place be called high school and the new place is called college.
Making the transition from high school to college can be scary and hard to get used to. In college, study habits will change, friends will change, the distance from family to school will most likely change and activities will change. One thing that will greatly change will be the way one eats and the amount of exercise one gets. The myth going into college is that you will gain the “freshmen fifteen”. The “freshmen fifteen” is in reference to gaining fifteen pounds due to change of diet and exercise habits. Fifteen out of fifteen freshmen girls at the University of LaCrosse have heard of that term before coming to college. The myth must be very well known if fifteen out of fifteen girls from around the state of Wisconsin and Minnesota have heard of the term. Another question asked was if they have gained any of the “freshmen fifteen” while attending the University of LaCrosse: nine out of fifteen said yes. Over fifty percent responded yes, so obviously this is a problem that needs to be solved. This problem exists for many reasons. Developing from causes that have critical consequences, the problem of gaining the freshmen fifteen needs a course of action that will best combat against it. To find the best solution for this problem, an interview with Craig Key, Sheila Clemmins, and a poll of fifteen freshmen girls took place. A conceivable solution to this problem is one that is rather intricate. It involves keeping a record of one’s dietary habits and one’s exercise regime. Then by setting goals and limits, one would fill in a daily summary of their doings. This isn’t the only solution, but it may just be the best. With the information concluded from interviews and polls, this solution was arrived at and will provide a better insight on how a freshmen girl at the University of LaCrosse can keep off the “freshmen fifteen”.
Why has the problem of freshmen girls gaining weight their first year of college developed? The change from going to one diet to another is...
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