Thank You Cereal!

Every year we come around the bend of finals week, I start to reflect on why my body feels so much like crap (to be blunt). Obviously the stress of all the work and the very few hours of sleep has something to do with it, but personally I feel like what I eat is a major contributing factor to that feeling as well. I was sitting and thinking about what I've eaten this past finals week and the list is not too enticing. The main dish I consumed, was cereal. I ate it at various times in the day and night, and sometimes ate it with milk and other times ate it dry. There were also times when I would sit and eat a bowl of cereal in the dining hall, but other times where I would dump some dry cereal in a plastic baggy and munch it on the go. Cereal is never more a part of my diet than in finals week, and I believe this is because it has proven itself to be one of the most convenient meals. Like I said, I can sit and eat it or go and eat it, and even when I take the time to sit, it is a fast paced sit down meal. Also, to me, and I think to many college students, cereal is a food that does not carry a distinct label of what "time of day" food it is. I mean, sure it's mainly a breakfast food, but most of us college students don't feel very weird eating cereal at different times of day (including 12am!) Cereal also comes in handy during finals week when the dining hall doesn't have much to offer, due to the fact that we are ending the semester and not ordering more food. The cereal is always out and always in the same place. It is a food that we can rely on; you can't do much wrong with cereal. So heres to cereal, not the most nutritious food, but a helping hand to the end!