Topics we have covered the past couple of weeks in My Body My Health include the effects of drugs and alcohol, drug abuse, dependency, addiction, etc. Not only are these topics interesting, but they are also relevant because they pertain to each college student's everyday life. The issues covered in class is meant to ensure that students are well aware of their behaviors and choices they make relating to alcohol and drug usage, marijuana, sexual behaviors, and health overall. Required for the course are weekly readings pertaining to the topic we are studying. This week we read two articles, "How Is Health Defined?" by Mildred Blaxter and "What Have We Learned" by Toben Nelson and Henry Wechsler. The article "What We Have Learned" focuses on a study concerning the consumption of alcohol by college students and their environment. Stemming off of that is "How is Health Defined?" which focuses on how people view the word "healthy" and "normal". The material learned in lecture and the content of these two articles relate to each other as all are meant to stimulate our awareness for health and our daily habits and behaviors. It is especially important that college students know of this in order to make decisions they can feel better about. During my high school years, drinking and smoking was at a minimal among my group of friends and I was not overly exposed to it. After arriving at college, I was exposed to a whole new world that I had been sheltered from for a majority of my life up until then, which included drinking, smoking, and freedom. I come from a town where many of the high school graduates who end up at University of Massachusetts Amherst usually found themselves joining either a fraternity or sorority somewhere down their college years. You could say I come from a town full of Amherst fraternity brothers or sisters. Inevitably, I end up attending these