illness at college

[drexah]

Kind of an x-post from bbv4life but basically I'm wondering if it's just me that gets sick ridiculously way too much at college. I remember when I was younger (like, middle school-high school) I rarely ever got sick. Then last year, my freshman year, I was basically sick the entire year, and this year 3 weeks in I've already gotten sick twice, first one cold, and today fever/flu like symptoms.

And, what do you guys do to prevent from getting sick? When I'm out at a party or something I never really think of the "cup situation" like playing beer pong or other games, but now I feel like I'm going to be such a nit about stuff like that. Also, I live with FOUR other guys in ONE room. It's a huge ass room but this can't be healthy. I'm about to go on a cleaning rampage and just make our room spotless.

[xSCWx]

Your room is an extra sausage pizza. That can't be healthy.

[drdre2001mm]

Let's see. College consists of sharing drinks, random hookups, and living within 1mile of 40000 other students that are doing the same thing. It's standard.

[qdmcg]

make sure you eat healthy, get exercise, take a vitamin, and stay hydrated. this stuff helps me so much (either that or im just a luckbox).

[Pokerdemic]

wash your hands often.

[mik37]

If anyone doesn't get sick at least once a semester I'm shocked. I do all the above (wash hands, eat right, drink a lot of water, etc.), but I don't think you can prevent illness on campus of 40K+.

[Quicksilvre]

It just sounds like a case of having a lot of people crammed together in a limited space, sharing germs. As others have already said, wash your hands fairly often and cover up when you sneeze, but there's no way to avoid it entirely.

[surftheiop]

dont get drunk
sleep more

[drexah]

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dont get drunk
sleep more

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good advice you probably are having an awesome time at college

[cking]

also since u didnt get sick much as a kid, your more likely to have a good but not extremly robust immune system that just hasnt been tested a bunch. Funny enough my freshman year i was fine pretty much the entire year but spent a very large chunk of 1st semester sophomore year very sick