Start the day out right with a bowl of fruit and yogurt. Nothing tastes better or is better for me than this fulfilling breakfast choice. Even when all of the other dining hall options make you think you might just want to skip breakfast, this choice, also delicious with the addition of granola, is one nobody can go wrong with.
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Throughout my childhood, nothing has been quite as constant as the daily ham and cheese sandwiches I find myself consuming. The salty-sweet goodness tops my list for any lunch-time option, and gives me the energy I need to make it through the rest of the day.
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To me, no lunch or dinner would be complete without a cold glass of milk; always skim. No matter what I eat or where I am, there is just no replacement for this tasty beverage when it comes to my meal-time thirst-quenching needs. There is no better lunch combination in the world than a nice, tasty submarine sandwich with all the fixings and a cold glass of skim milk.
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Along with my mid-afternoon drowsiness comes a mid-afternoon hunger that requires some serious replenishment. One of my favorite snacks is these cinnamon-sugar mixed nuts that my grandma has been blessing me with for years. Hand made in small batches and straight out of a mason jar, these Vermont delicacies make it truly impossible to eat just one.
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As the sun drops below the Syracuse hills, students everywhere make there ways to the nearest dining hall for a predictably average attempt at a hot meal. On this day, the Shaw Dining Hall had a special medieval-themed dinner complete with decorations and appetizers. To my dismay, however, all the medieval excitement, I presume, left everyone extra hungry, because by the time I arrived all of the turkey drumsticks were gone.
Follow Up: We
often think of selfies in today’s age of technology as an innocent, if not
slightly annoying practice, but that isn’t how everyone sees them. Around the
world, people are actually using this odd phenomena for good; as a tool to
spread some of the unbelievable realities we tend to overlook living in a first
world country. With similar strategies to what people around the U.S. are using
to gain followers on Facebook or Instagram, movements like the “What I Eat”
campaign are also using to progress humanitarian efforts. To me, the idea of
using pictures at all is an ingenious way to spread awareness of the heinous
circumstances people around the world endure. In each of our busy lives there
rarely is time to sit down and read articles or analysis of conflict or
economic hardship, and even when we do, rarely does it ever hit on the human
level. With one mere look at a photograph, however, I can be mesmerized and
almost momentarily put in another person’s shoes. I may not ever truly feel
what a single mother in a war-stricken place feels on a daily basis, but when I
see a captivating picture of them in the environment they live in, I can at
least empathize for them for a minute. Growing up, I always loved to look
inside the National Geographic
magazines my dad would get in the mail each month, and each time the
awe-inspiring images of oppressed women and starving children made me
appreciate just how lucky I was to be in the position I was in. For decades, National Geographic photographers and
editors have been using the human subject, not to promote any one cause in
particular, but to try to make sure we don’t forget how lucky we all are to
live in as great of a country as America.
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