The College is a place of learning. Learn how to fill in the swim meet with fizzies, deliver medical school cadavers to alumni dinner, fill in the trees with underwear and exploding toilets each spring.
Error, mean that the College is a place of higher education, as well as physics, calculus, math, and science-all "good" stuff.
The College is also the home of the dreaded "freshman 15" refers to the weight of many students win away from home in their first year in school.
However, if you are a girl, a new study says you probably less gain weight during your freshman year, if your roommate is heavy.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Health Economists, researchers discovered women with college roommates who have above average weight, get less attention during their freshman year than female students with slimmer roommates.
The difference, however, was the only light, half pound versus 2.5 pounds.Yeah, not to put a big dent in the freshman 15.
But the reason for the difference makes sense, even if it is not so obvious. Researchers say heavier roommates is probably more diet, exercise and restrict access to food, and these behaviors may be "infectious."
They also say most of the time people pick friends and acquaintances, which is similar to itself. So with randomly assigned roommates, you may be combined with a person you would normally make friends with, just as an overweight person., and this person unique habits can rub off on you.
This makes a lot of sense to me. My roommate in the College exercise not before I met him, but later he started go to the gym with me.
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