I was born on 1-29-1987.

I'm engaged. I use my fiance's last name because I hate my own.

I'm a manager at a movie theater.

I'm a senior at the University of Illinois at Springfield and I am majoring in Communication.

I know too much about ...

the X-Files and Friends

My childhood ambition ...

to become an astronomer or egyptologist, then I realized I hate history and I can't do science or math.

Why I write ...

because I can.

My first job ...

Showplace West 12... I wish I could leave it.

Health & Fitness > Diet & Weight Loss Is the freshman 15 a myth?

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The freshman 15 is definitely not a myth. I think it has been revised to the freshman 40. When I started college, I was about 150 pounds. I started to live off of a vending machine and constant soda. I think my final weight at the end of the year was around 170 pounds. One of my friends gained 50 pounds in her freshman year. Now that we're seniors, we've slimmed down.

HOW TO AVOID THE FRESHMAN 15:

BE AWARE that you could gain weight your freshman year. Many of the kids in my class said in the first week of class that they were not going to gain weight. They did. If you stay conscious o...

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