Food for Thought

Check out these lessons you can learn from food:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-food-teaches-us-about-life/

I'd like to add my own: Don't be Afraid to Eat Slices Sober

I didn't see Christina's play, but I gathered that the main message was to not confine oneself to Colgate's social norms, to be independent, follow your intuition etc. Here at Colgate, student's act differently when they drink. We are more willing to break out of our social cliques and are more friendly, more likely to interact with the other gender. In fact, we often have entire relationships based on night life drinking schedules. We also eat a lot of Slices. So why do we only do these things when drinking? Because, just like it's less socially acceptable to dive into a greasy, cheesy, ranch/hot sauce covered slice at 6:30 on a Tuesday apparently it's equally unacceptable to text/call your crush or go on a sober, real, official date. I like to go out and have a good time just as much as everyone else, but there is something to be said for acting on instinct, wants, needs and a little bit of courage (the very way we do when a few drinks deep) sober. So, the lesson to learn is: those things you only do when drinking? try them sober. (PS - if the idea of doing them sober absolutely horrifies you then you probably shouldn't be doing them while drinking, either! My mom would be proud to hear that!)