<p>Last year, I got sick in the winter. I had to miss some classes because I just couldn't get off my bun. This year, there's more at stake. I have to get up at 5:00 AM 5 days/week to deliver bundles of newspaper. It's good money - $500/month, which is why I can't screw up.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I'm taking a heavy courseload, so I'll be stressed out. How do I not get sick?</p>
<p>Go to bed early, eat well, and wash your hands often. Common sense, but that’s really the best you can do.</p>
<p>no miracle pills? I’m disappointed.</p>
<p>The miracle pill is called “sleep”. People who sleep less than 7 hours a night have been found to be three times as likely to catch a cold or flu than people who get at least 8 hours of sleep.</p>
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<p>that’s bad, because I have trouble falling asleep. I’ll go talk to a doctor about it.</p>
<p>Google for some tips on falling asleep. They help a lot.</p>
<p>–get enough sleep
–take a multivitamin
–eat healthier
–wash your hands
–use lysol wipes on doorknobs or railings every so often
–keep your room clean
–exercise regularly</p>
<p>Or, go eat some dirt, play in the mud, don’t wash your hands, etc. NOW before you go to school, so you can build up that immune system. Or at least that’s what you should have been doing as a little kid.</p>
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<p>strangely enough, this can be all the difference between getting sick or not. When I was running cross country/track in high school, I was doing 8-10 miles a day 6 days a week, and I was burning through a lot of calories by doing so, and I also had to wake up at 5:45 or 6 am for 0 period, so I got sick literally once a month and it was brutal. So I went to my doctor and all she said was to take a multi-vitamin and I should be fine, and she also recommended an extra hour of sleep if possible, and so I took the advice and I didn’t get sick for the rest of the year + the next year. It can sometimes be hard to eat healthy in college so the vitamin can truly make all the difference.</p>
<p>Eat right and wash your hands. That was my simple solution, and that’s how I survived the Swine Flu outbreak at my school where 50% of the school was absent on one day. Don’t touch the table in the common room and then rub your eye; don’t sit on public chairs all day and then lay on your bed in those grody clothes that touched those chairs. Just be smart.</p>
<p>Many will not like this, but I will state it anyway.</p>
<p>Because of the large population density, campuses tend to be rife with disease. It is almost like a giant petri dish around cold season.</p>
<p>The more one avoids campus, the lower the odds of one getting disease spread on campus.</p>
<p>If one cannot minimise this time and for whatever reason are living on campus, one may as well resign one’s self to the fact that one will be getting sick frequently. The proposed methods of lowering one’s risk of disease should help, but I would fine-tune with the following:</p>
<p>-multivitamin and vitamin C supplement
-be observant of the symptoms of those around you. Do not be afraid to change seats if someone has the sniffles.
-make sure to drink plenty of filtered tap water; it helps to flush out the system. Try drinking it in lieu of soda and other bottled drinks.</p>
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<p>[On</a> the Uses of One](<a href=“http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/one.htm]On”>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/one.htm):</p>
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<p>And I note: “minimise.”</p>
<p>DRINK WATER. WASH YOUR HANDS. VITAMIN C. EXCESSIVELY.</p>
<p>It’s my I’m-starting-to-feel-sick-routine :)</p>
<p>Silver - why are you making a big thing about this? Tall poppy syndrome perhaps? I find the generic one preferable to the generic you. If nothing else, it promotes faulty logic. Compare these forms:</p>
<p>Given X, you should do Y. - here, one makes the leap between a generic scenario and that of the addressee, and implies that the criteria of X are met as they apply to the addressee.
Given X, one should do Y. - here, it is clear that this is a generic case
Given X, one should do Y. As X applies, you should do Y. - here, the progression from generic to addressee is clear.</p>
<p>Get a flu shot BEFORE the winter season.
Get enough sleep</p>
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<p>Apparently you missed my point…</p>
<p>(Though to address your response, as much a product of misinterpretation as it is: one of the definitions of “you” is “one,” so there is no faulty logic in using “you” in substitution of “one.”)</p>
<p>Silver - read closer. I said that the generic you promotes faulty logic, not that it is logical fallacy nor that it is incorrect. In fact, Oxford acknowledges ‘you’ may be used in the generic. Whether it is proper to use ‘you’ in such a manner is another thing. Then again, Americans seem to take pleasure in bastardising their language, so it comes as no surprise.</p>
<p>As for your ‘point’, you did not make one. Rather, you quoted me, cited a paragraph elsewhere, and then noted the spelling of ‘minimise’. Is the absence of the penultimate zed so disconcerting?</p>
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<p>You’re confusing “promotes faulty logic” with “creates ambiguity.” </p>
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<p>How general of you.</p>
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<p>Acts which, when presented together as they were, make a rather solid point, perceivable by only some, apparently.</p>
<p>On topic: does anyone use Airborne?</p>
<p>The forms which I cited demonstrate that the generic you promotes faulty logic. You are correct that the use of ‘you’ in the first term is ambiguous, and in ambiguity promotes faulty logic in that the listener makes the leap from the generic you to the pronoun you which invites the logical fallacy. </p>
<p>I never confused anything, rather, you created a false dichotomy and attacked me with it.</p>
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<p>Again, you did not make a point, you only cited an article regarding the use of ‘one’ and noted my spelling. At the very least, you intended to make a point, but failed to make one because you did not state nor even hint at a thesis. It would be like if I were to quote something out of context, note a fact that has nothing to do with said article, and expect the reader to infer my sentiments based upon that. </p>
<p>You make points like a dog makes turds, and both need to be scooped up and put in garbage bins.</p>
<p>I’m so smart big words.</p>