The Black Sheep
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Volume 1, Issue 2 9/13/12 - 9/19/12
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Stay In Shape, Just By Going to Class! Meagan O’Day wrote this With each new school year promises are made: you will lose some extra weight, be super-athletic four or five times a week, and wear those cute little yoga shorts that don’t come in adult women’s sizes. “I can totally do it this year,” you say, and then you remember that you have a Monday morning class in Woodburn that projectile vomits homework upon you at the speed of sound. Not to mention organization meetings to attend, and a job in the Evansdale computer lab that you should probably take seriously. You come home from a long-ass day and you just want to sit down and write on Facebook about how you’re reading this incredibly dense book that is changing your perspective on life, while sharing political memes that instill hostility and annoyance in the lucky people who are friends with you. Unfortunately, it’s normal to not have time to do anything outside of your academic schedule, or to not want to make the time to do something less than thrilling because you are tired enough to punch the Zumba instructor in the face for asking you to bounce a little higher. The last thing anyone wants to do is take the PRT or sit in five o’clock traffic for forty five minutes to do some crunches at the SRC that will be negated by a hearty dinner of Ramen and Pop Tarts. Clearly, you have comrades. The “I-don’t-feel-like-it” epidemic is perpetuated and excused in university life. You have to truly want to shed the pounds, even if it means getting up at five A.M. to cry over your elliptical machine. However, because Morgantown, West Virginia is built on the side of a mountain, you really don’t need to do much more than walk across campus to burn some serious calories. Here are some suggestions to keep your gut from sitting on your lap during lecture. Take the Life Sciences Building stairs: All of them. The ones inside the building as well as the treacherous mountainside cement blocks that you scale on your way back from Biology 301. Even if it’s just a little out of your way, you’ll be grateful when you realize your calves remind the Mountaineer plebeians of legendary Greek gods. Sit up straight in class: Naturally, you want to strike that Jell-O pose once you drag your ass into class and secure yourself into a decently comfortable position, but sitting up correctly and engaging your abdominal muscles will help your back and your midsection over time.
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Stay away from elevators: If you do not have a disability, a broken limb or a huge box to carry, take the damn stairs. It really doesn’t hurt and your legs will benefit greatly. While you are at it, take the steps in front of Stalnaker Hall. You will need to stop half way through and write a letter home to your roommates explaining that you will return before the first snow, but it’s a wonderful form of quasi-quick, habitual exercise. Walk: Walk to class, walk to other campuses, and walk home. It sounds completely inconvenient and well, it is. Withal, your body will adapt to the trek and pretty soon,
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walking from Towers to Engineering will start feeling pretty boss. Naturally, one needs to assume a healthy diet is coming into play here as well. If you stake out the ice cream machine at Hatfields every day and accept deep fried whatever-the-hell as a genuine meal, none of this will count for shit. Start changing your habits as soon as possible, that way, when you do get a chance to actually go to the gym, you won’t have to be bed ridden the whole next day because you can’t feel your knees.
what is something you wish you knew as a freshman?
confessions of a college house pet.
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we can barely take care of ourselves, let alone a pet.