If you thought we were out of the woods with swine flu when summer began, you’re sadly mistaken. Health officials predict that come the fall, the H1N1 virus will begin to spread once again. Residential colleges are expected to be hit particularly hard, as dorms make the perfect breeding grounds for the spread of illness. (Lots of people with not-so-clean living habits? Hellooooo, disease!) But don’t start freaking out and sterilizing your possessions just yet; colleges are aware of the situation and are taking steps to help keep their students healthy.

To put it crudely: everyone chill the f*ck out. They got this.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control decided to include 19 to 24 year-olds in the first-priority group for the swine flu vaccine, due out in October. This age group has seen many of the worst cases of swine flu, and the college experience of living, studying, and socializing together makes students even more susceptible to the virus. If you thought your roommate was impossible to live with before, wait until he or she gets sick. You’d have to have an immune system of steel not to catch whatever she’s got. Read More »

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After a request from female Muslim students, Harvard University recently created women-only workout hours. According to a representative from the Harvard Islamic Society,

These hours are necessary because there is a segment of the Harvard female population that is not found in gyms, not because they don’t want to work out, but because for them working out in a co-ed gym is uncomfortable, awkward or problematic in some way.

Sounds reasonable. Harvard is facing some heat from their male population, but that is to be expected. In the spirit of this Ivy League move, I would like to do them one better. I am proposing special hours for Non-Gym People. Allow me to explain.

In what will later be called a temporary bout with insanity, I am currently training for a triathlon for charity.

I am not athletic. Far from it. Thanks to a crippling cocktail of embarrassment, fear and laziness I’ve stayed away from the gym at school for the better part of college. But with the triathlon quickly approaching, I’ve been forced to face the building and people I’ve feared. Read More »