Five Healthy Tips for a Better College Life

Atticus Wickert Contributing Writer

It’s important to be able to make healthy choices when you first get to college. Making healthy choices can help you focus, learn, and overall, makes your time at college a lot easier. Let’s talk about five different, easy, affordable, and simple things you can do to start making your college experience better.

Making the gym a healthy habit! If it’s hitting the treadmill, or lifting weights, going to the gym builds healthy and good habits. Not only will you feel better about your health, but you will feel good about yourself! The gym also isn’t that hard to get into. Even just 30 minutes three times a week doing an easy small compound lift exercise based on what you want to achieve in the gym is do-able and sustainable with classes and busy schedules! If the gym isnt your style of exercise either, yoga, dance, sports, and just walking or running outside are great alternatives and super helpful for getting you into that healthy mindset!

Eating a good healthy well-rounded diet! We all know that ramen and chips are a college staple, but learning how to eat well and have a well-balanced diet is important as well. Everyone has unique needs for their meals, but it’s important to make sure you get vegetables, fruit, and other balanced options either in the cafeteria or in your own fridge! “When I first started here, I was not eating well whatsoever, I was having ramen every night and would eat snacks at like midnight, but then I started to cook and prepare my own lunches, and it really impacted my hunger and focus throughout the day” Said Nathan Rositzky a Senior at Alvernia. Do your homework and make sure to study! While everyone has their own preferences to how they like to study, and when they get their homework done, if you can do it consistently you are on the right track. Keeping a good habit of doing your work at a certain time each day can be helpful for some. Do not be afraid to ask people in your class to study together either, it can be an effective way to make friends, and help you be even more prepared together! Remember, if you’re ever struggling with school work, a class, or studying for a test, or just generally want to get a better understanding of a class, the ASC has tutoring services for all students. To set up an appointment you can contact the ASC here https://www.alvernia.edu/ current-students/academicsuccess-center ! Getting enough sleep! We know that staying up late can feel essential with classwork and everything else. But staying on a good sleep schedule with at least 8 hours of sleep a day is important. Sleeping at the