The USDA awarded a $150,000 grant to study why college freshmen tend to gain weight.
Wow. That’s like $30,000 a letter to be told “no mom”.
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i’m a bit curious as to when this “freshman fifteen” thing started. i don’t remember it being an issue when i was a freshman. maybe because we had to chase down our own food, kill it with our bare hands and eat it raw in time to get to class.
maybe because among the basic assumptions to get into college were that you could feed yourself without mommy.
maybe we all turned into porkers and i just don’t remember. gee, let’s spend $149,992 to find out. BTW what happened to the extra 8 bucks? can’t someone spring for 8 bucks just to make it easy on the accountants?
I lived at home during undergraduate school. Then I moved more than two-thousand miles away, learned to cook for myself, and put on fifteen pounds (from 120 lbs to 135 – I’m 5’9″ tall), largely, I suspect, because I had escaped the cooking of my mother, who was the worst cook in the central time zone.
I realize that “common sense ” has been demoted to “witchdoctor medicine” status but really. It’s like they’re going to have an investigation into why since the introduction of women and gays into front line jobs, the rate of sexual misconduct has risen exponentially. Put people in constant danger and stress, little privacy and intimate (non sexual) situation, and what could possibly go wrong? Even your average fly over country yokel like me could extrapolate that data……………….
Wait we already have that…………………………..Big mother I mean. She tells us all what to eat, when, where and how while chowing down on ribs, potato salad and creme brule.
i’m a bit curious as to when this “freshman fifteen” thing started. i don’t remember it being an issue when i was a freshman. maybe because we had to chase down our own food, kill it with our bare hands and eat it raw in time to get to class.
maybe because among the basic assumptions to get into college were that you could feed yourself without mommy.
maybe we all turned into porkers and i just don’t remember. gee, let’s spend $149,992 to find out. BTW what happened to the extra 8 bucks? can’t someone spring for 8 bucks just to make it easy on the accountants?
I lived at home during undergraduate school. Then I moved more than two-thousand miles away, learned to cook for myself, and put on fifteen pounds (from 120 lbs to 135 – I’m 5’9″ tall), largely, I suspect, because I had escaped the cooking of my mother, who was the worst cook in the central time zone.
No mom + hello, beer! = I’m surprised they don’t gain a hell of a lot more weight. They must use a lot of food money for beer.
I realize that “common sense ” has been demoted to “witchdoctor medicine” status but really. It’s like they’re going to have an investigation into why since the introduction of women and gays into front line jobs, the rate of sexual misconduct has risen exponentially. Put people in constant danger and stress, little privacy and intimate (non sexual) situation, and what could possibly go wrong? Even your average fly over country yokel like me could extrapolate that data……………….
We’re paying for dufus’ to research nonsense.
The solution is for the state to introduce “Big Mother” to make sure every Freshman eats properly.
Wait we already have that…………………………..Big mother I mean. She tells us all what to eat, when, where and how while chowing down on ribs, potato salad and creme brule.