Afterword:
I've always tried to balance my fast food intake by eating vegetables, but that's difficult when you don't like to eat anything green. Admittedly, I will probably continue to eat the way I always have, mostly fast food with occasional bites of mashed potatoes or corn. But writing this paper made me uncomfortably conscious of my poor eating habits and revealed that Rowan is in a way enabling my bad habits. It's easy to blame someone else for my own faults, but Rowan really does need to not just provide but encourage healthy eating habits.
I practically had to memorize the food pyramid in elementary school, but my poor eating habits began in high school when more focus was put on academics than personal health. By the time I got to college and fully realized the scope of my freedom, it was like letting a five-year-old kid loose in a candy store. My dad was no longer piling veggies on to my plate and not letting me up from the dinner table until I'd finished every last pea or kernel of corn.
Here at Rowan, Coca-Cola flows from the fountain drink machine like Niagra Falls, an endless supply of thirst-quenchiness. I'm lucky that I avoided the infamous Freshman Fifteen, but many people I know here on campus weren't so lucky. The Fifteen is not a mystery, it's not the eighth wonder of the world. This project helped make perfect sense of people gaining a large amount of weight in a small amount of time. As an adult, I should know better than to drink too much soda and eat fast food every day, but Rowan is not doing everything it can to show me and my fellow college students that there are other options.
Rowan could again point out that we're adults, but what's so wrong with helping people lead a healthier lifestyle. If your little brother was addicted to playing video games instead of studying, wouldn't you drag him over to his desk, hold his nose to his math book and help him solve those algebra problems? He should know better and he probably does know better, but with a bit of tough love, your brother could become a functioning member of society. Similarly, it would be nice if Rowan gave some love to its students that pay lots of money to learn to become intellectually healthy people. Why not also be physically healthy?
To help us complete our project, my cowriters and me used technologies that we hadn't used before, such as our Weebly blog sites to show and share our papers, Youtube to upload the interview videos, and Dropbox to share the pictures of the surveys.
I did not play a large part in uploading the surveys to Dropbox, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to access the pictures after I was invited to see them. It took a half hour to figure out that it was as simple as downloading the program onto my laptop and the shared folder was right on my screen, ready to be opened, is pretty embarrassing.
I didn't have to upload the Youtube videos, which I hear was difficult, but grabbing the link from the video and then putting them up on my Weebly site took less time than the Dropbox debacle. All I had to do was click on the "multimedia" tab on the Weebly site and then drag it down on to the blank page.
The next problem, though, was that I couldn't figure out how to put two videos next to each other for a cleaner look on the page. But I quickly figured out that in the "basics" tab there's an option for two columns.
Making the photo gallery for the surveys was even simpler to do. I copied the pictures from Dropbox onto a flash drive, then I dragged the "slideshow" down and uploaded the pictures off of the drive.
These technologies were very helpful.
I've always tried to balance my fast food intake by eating vegetables, but that's difficult when you don't like to eat anything green. Admittedly, I will probably continue to eat the way I always have, mostly fast food with occasional bites of mashed potatoes or corn. But writing this paper made me uncomfortably conscious of my poor eating habits and revealed that Rowan is in a way enabling my bad habits. It's easy to blame someone else for my own faults, but Rowan really does need to not just provide but encourage healthy eating habits.
I practically had to memorize the food pyramid in elementary school, but my poor eating habits began in high school when more focus was put on academics than personal health. By the time I got to college and fully realized the scope of my freedom, it was like letting a five-year-old kid loose in a candy store. My dad was no longer piling veggies on to my plate and not letting me up from the dinner table until I'd finished every last pea or kernel of corn.
Here at Rowan, Coca-Cola flows from the fountain drink machine like Niagra Falls, an endless supply of thirst-quenchiness. I'm lucky that I avoided the infamous Freshman Fifteen, but many people I know here on campus weren't so lucky. The Fifteen is not a mystery, it's not the eighth wonder of the world. This project helped make perfect sense of people gaining a large amount of weight in a small amount of time. As an adult, I should know better than to drink too much soda and eat fast food every day, but Rowan is not doing everything it can to show me and my fellow college students that there are other options.
Rowan could again point out that we're adults, but what's so wrong with helping people lead a healthier lifestyle. If your little brother was addicted to playing video games instead of studying, wouldn't you drag him over to his desk, hold his nose to his math book and help him solve those algebra problems? He should know better and he probably does know better, but with a bit of tough love, your brother could become a functioning member of society. Similarly, it would be nice if Rowan gave some love to its students that pay lots of money to learn to become intellectually healthy people. Why not also be physically healthy?
To help us complete our project, my cowriters and me used technologies that we hadn't used before, such as our Weebly blog sites to show and share our papers, Youtube to upload the interview videos, and Dropbox to share the pictures of the surveys.
I did not play a large part in uploading the surveys to Dropbox, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to access the pictures after I was invited to see them. It took a half hour to figure out that it was as simple as downloading the program onto my laptop and the shared folder was right on my screen, ready to be opened, is pretty embarrassing.
I didn't have to upload the Youtube videos, which I hear was difficult, but grabbing the link from the video and then putting them up on my Weebly site took less time than the Dropbox debacle. All I had to do was click on the "multimedia" tab on the Weebly site and then drag it down on to the blank page.
The next problem, though, was that I couldn't figure out how to put two videos next to each other for a cleaner look on the page. But I quickly figured out that in the "basics" tab there's an option for two columns.
Making the photo gallery for the surveys was even simpler to do. I copied the pictures from Dropbox onto a flash drive, then I dragged the "slideshow" down and uploaded the pictures off of the drive.
These technologies were very helpful.