Two students address their diet transitions from living at home to living in a dorm and from the dorm to an apartment.
“My diet changed considerably when I moved into the dorms” said Heath Pratt, health and exercise science sophomore. “I used to have home cooked meals and all around healthier food, but when I moved into the dorms, the all you can eat food really affected me negatively”.
Moving from the dorms to an apartment has a slightly different effect.
“When I lived in the dorms, I ate so badly,” Said Bobby Atchison, mathematics junior. “Everything I ate was either fried or came from a package. When I moved into an apartment, I found that I could do so many more things food wise. I could cook with healthy vegetables and monitor what I was putting in my food.”
These changes in diet are fairly common for students transitioning from home to college or from a dorm to an apartment.
“When teenagers move out of their houses for the first time, some tend to get too excited and go crazy with the junk food” said Jennifer Ray, Registered Dietitian. “It doesn’t always happen, but many students change their eating habits when they don’t have a parent to look after them anymore or make them food.”
There can be upsides and downsides to both a dorm and an apartment.
“I couldn’t really cook anything in my dorm besides ramen noodles in the microwave, but I always had access to Xcetera convenience store and the 24 hour restaurants like Crossroads” said Pratt “It was nice that I never had to cook anything myself, though. Everything in the Caf is already made and ready for eating, which is awesome”.
Atchison addresses the upside to moving out of the dorms.
“I did like living in the dorms, but I love the freedom that I have to cook myself wholesome, nutritious foods in an apartment, which I didn’t have while living in the dorms.”
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