【推荐2】It’s difficult to imagine a standard coming-of-age experience that involves more change, more stress, and more personal challenge than freshman year of college.

That food might become a way for many to deal with those stresses is hardly surprising. Weight gain in the first year of college, often jokingly referred to as the “Freshman 15”, is so common that it has become a cliche(陈词滥调). The fact that this freshman weight gain is so commonplace disguises the fact that it is often a sign of a young person having difficulty coping with the stresses of a new life.

“Food becomes a way to exert control for many freshmen when they feel little control in many areas of their lives,” Molly Kimball, a registered dietitian and sports nutritionist, says. “I work with young people all the time who have gotten into poor lifestyle choices and a disordered way of eating.”

“These are serious issues,” says Carol Holland, an associate professor and psychologist in the counseling center, adds. “Gaining 10 or 15 pounds isn’t always a big deal, but it could be a sign that a young person does not have the coping skills needed given the stresses he or she is under. That’s something parents want to be aware of.”

“For many students, college life is starting over from square one,” says Holland, a spokesman for the American College Counseling Association. “They have all new friends, academic demands, boy-girl relationships, and money worries. They may think it’s easy, but quickly they are neck deep into a real time of difficult transformation.”

So how to keep this situational overeating in check?

Get in a regular pattern of eating and selectively eat things you enjoy. Don’t skip meals, and keep a healthy, satisfying snack on hand. Also, try to work out a healthy food plan that uses what you have around you that is easy and convenient. Finally, don’t stop exercising. Most schools have some kind of student sports center, join it and get rid of your lazy habits!

【推荐3】If someone were to ask me what it is like to be a student in today’s society, I would probably answer: Being a student in today s society is not always easy.

Adults often tell us that we don’t know what stress is. But we have our own levels of stress. Many students in their high school years start their part-time job, so now you have school in the mornings, followed by responsibilities needing to be taken care of at home and then you’re off to work. By the time you are done there, you are too tired to finish your school work, but you stay up late to try and return to school feeling sleepy the next day. What good is that?

My point is, it is a whole lot more stressful to be a student in high school than adults believe. Our “stress” may not include paying bills or taking care of a family, but I’m sure if the adults in our lives could go back to school today, they would be surprised at how much it has changed.

I don’t want you to think for a minute that there aren’t good moments and memories while we are students at school. My mom always tells me to enjoy it while I can. I know that the world outside of school is often hard and that the responsibilities are serious. That’s exactly why I know that the focus I give to my future is important in leading me to a career that will allow me to contribute to society.

【推荐3】A remake episode（剧集）of All in the Family, set in 1976, recreated the Bunker family home in New York. Archie the conservative（保守的）loading-dock worker and his kindly wife Edith have an unexpected visitor David Brewster, who is the school friend of their son-in-law Mike. David is a Vietnam War draft dodger（逃避兵役者）who fled back home for Christmas. When Edith invites David to join them for the holiday dinner, Mike warns his friend not to tell Archie what he'd done - and to avoid such topics as politics, religion and war.

Archie, meanwhile, has invited his friend Pinky Peterson, who lost his son Steve in the war. Mike's worst fears are realized - David's secret is let out and the happy gathering quickly turns into a bitter argument over the war, with Archie yelling, “What he did was wrong！” Finally Pinky stands up. “My kid hated the war too,” he says. “But he did what he thought he had to do. So did David... if Steve was here, he would want to sit down with him. And that is what I want to do.”

All in the Family was first broadcast in 1971, two years before the United States withdrew from Vietnam. The very day ABC restaged the show in 2019, Congress had started impeachment（弹劾）against President Donald Trump, and the country found itself as polarized（分化）as ever. So much had changed in four-plus decades - and yet so little.

Back in the 1970s, of course, it was brave for a sitcom（情景喜剧）to take on such a sensitive topic as the war. There was no political content on TV, until the full-throated “angry white man” Archie Bunker broke into America's living rooms, proudly claiming, “I hate change.” He represented the conservatives who felt overlooked by the general public and Washington officials - and he broadcast his prejudices every week.

As a result, All in the Family quickly did more than become a top-rated Emmy Award-winning series. This show transformed the very nature of what could be broadcast into our homes, and paved the way for other shows with working-class as well as racially diverse characters. It touches problems that still confused our families and society, and seeks to understand and explain the very soul of America.