JUST FOLLOW YOUR NOSE?!

Coming to university can lead to a dramatic change in lifestyle. Many elements of the new environment may be completely new. Suddenly, we don’t have parents to tell us to do our homework. We have the option of staying up all night. We can have as many or as few meals as we want – and darn it, if we want potato chips for dinner, we can have potato chips!

But all of these changes have the potential to create quite a bit of strain on our well-being. With great power comes great responsibility: Our decisions of how we choose to live our lives are going to directly affect our overall health. And this is where the difficulty begins. Truth be told, the transition to university isn’t easy for everyone. Many people, including the creators of this web site, have stumbled – and perhaps are still stumbling – along this arduous road to self-discovery.

So how do we take care of ourselves? After months of research, discussion, and personal experimenting, we – the creators of this page – have decided that there is no simple answer. We’ve decided that there isn’t a universal standard of health. But what we will try to do is to help you, the first year university student, make your own informed and educated decisions on defining and perhaps achieving your own personal standard of health.

We will educate you, providing information relevant to certain focuses of health. We will guide you with tools to help you self-evaluate so that you can see the direction you want to be headed. We will offer general advice and guidelines – maps that you may or may not use. But in the end, in the philosophy of university, it is up to you to make your own choices. Follow your nose.