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Aerobic Dance Class by Annette Huynh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


I don’t know about all of the other freshmen, but before even stepping foot onto the Trinity University campus, I was already preparing for the worst. Don’t get me wrong, I was definitely excited, but I had also been warned. For example, I had been told about the difficulties of college classes (especially the science classes), I was worried about rooming with someone I didn’t know, and I had been told repeatedly by my mom to watch out for the freshman fifteen. But after my first few days, I found that I had been nervous for no reason at all. The professors are all friendly and willing to help, my roommate and I get along extremely well, and during registration, I enrolled in an aerobic dance class.

This aerobic dance class is what I’ll be focusing on in this blog. Once you get comfortable with your surroundings and make friends with the people around you, it’s easy to fall into the habit of going for midnight-snack runs or grabbing a quick slice of pizza for dinner before hitting the books. I know that during orientation, I made puppy chow, which is a snack smothered in chocolate, peanut butter, and powdered sugar, with my roommate and then proceeded to consume it at four o’clock in the morning. My suite mates and I also made many late-night trips to Amy’s Ice Cream. I’m sure I’m not the only college kid to start on this unhealthy road to the freshman fifteen. However, the advice that the instructor gave during the very first aerobic dance class inspired me to eat well while living away from home and the classes themselves, though they don’t involve any dancing whatsoever, could whip anyone into shape.