Take Care of Yourself : ) Your Health Comes FIRST

Hey it's *Hilary...

There's no better time than NOW to take care of yourself. If you're feeling stressed, hit the gym, do some laps in the pool, or take a stroll on the beach. Honestly, there has never been a time that I regretted working out. It'll give you that little extra boost before that next study sesh.

Lookin to jump start your study snacks?

Check out these tips from Becky McDivitt, our registered dietician : )

Eating Strategies

1. Eat small, frequent meals to stay alert and energized.
2. Don’t skip meals due to marathon study sessions!
3. Have healthy snacks like these ready for study breaks:
   • Nuts and dried fruit
   • Cheese sticks and yogurt
   • Sliced veggies and dip or hummus
   • Fresh fruit
   • Low fat popcorn
   • Half-sandwich
4. Eat your snack away from your study area. Avoid mindless snacking while studying.
5. Stay hydrated with water, tea, milk or small amounts of 100% juice.
6. Manage stress with non-eating activities like exercise, meditation, yoga, talking with friends, and watching a movie.
7. Don’t over-do it with caffeine in an effort to stay awake. If your body is telling you to sleep, you need to sleep! Well-rested students perform better on tests.

Stay classy San Diego.

*Hilary

Oh and FYI...

Finals Week Approaching...

Greetings,





I hope you are all having an enjoyable week! Wow, the quarter will soon have its end in just about three weeks! This is a good time of reflection (and studying of course).


There are some great places on campus in which to get alone and think or study ~.~





The Knoll grass in Muir outside of Main Gym is of course a most popular location for reflection and sun-basked studying.


The Treehouse Lounge in the Old Student Center is loaded with comfortable furniture and views of trees.


The Neighborhood Community Garden behind the Che Cafe also offers chairs to reflect in and maybe you'll catch one of the gardening folks who will swoop you into some gardening action!


The Pepper Canyon Farm is also growing! Check out the ambience and green going on down the path behind Outback Adventures and Pepper Canyon Hall.

If you would like less scenic places, I recommend the first floor of Geisel in the Social Sciences & Humanites Library. They have a bunch of computers for all your internet needs.

Please remember to take care of yourself and eat healthy these coming weeks. There will be two farmers' markets coming to you!

Tuesday is the large Farmer's Market located in Town Square (by the Student Services Center).

• 10 A.M.- 2P.M.
  

On Wednesday will be the Farm2U put on by Housing and Dining.

• May 26~ Roger's


• June 6~ Foodworx


• 3:30-6:30 P.M.

Please email me if you'd like more places I can recommend or comments or just a hello!





Remember to breathe easy and take care of yourself. Take in the sun and warmth of friendship.







Love,


Jessica

End of the Year Parties and Events!! GET READY FOR MOVE-OUT!!

Hey people.

The end of Spring Quarter is fast approaching!!....and you know what that means... MOVE OUT!

To help you prep for Move Out, the EcoNauts are going to stop by RA events at all six colleges and The Village next week... to give them a heads up on the ZERO WASTE MOVE OUT PLAN.

FYI: These Zero Waste Move Out talks are for Res Life Staff only, but please feel free to ask them questions you may have after Tuesday of next week. ;)

The meetings will take place Tues. May 25th at these times:

7:00 pm- ERC

7:10 pm- Warren

8:00 pm- Village

Marshall

Sixth

8:30 pm- Revelle

so.... bug your RAs about MOVE OUT details, so you're ahead of the game!

p.s. CHECK OUT OUR "Recycling Box" MUSIC VIDEO DEBUTE starring the ECONAUTS! It's a spin-off of an SNL skit... enjoy ; )

Plastic in a Box

Help make UC San Diego zero waste!

oh and.... come hang with the Villagers and the rest of UCSD at the Village Block Party 2010

Facebook event: click below
Village Block Party 2010

Date:	Friday, May 21, 2010
Time:	1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:	The Village

Description

FREE BBQ lunch, tie-dye your own shirt, cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn, carnival games, a giant slip n slide, inflatable twister, bouncy boxing, featuring music from DJ Colourvision!!

Tabling from your favorite UCSD transfer orgs.

Celebrate the end of the first year of the Village! We were here first!!


Live it up!

*Hilary

Sungod!!

Hello!

I hope you all got to experience Sungod Festival in one way or another. This is the most festive day at UCSD where us bookworms get out and get super friendly with thousands of our peers we may never chatted with before. It is a day of friendship and fun! It is a day when the repertoire of UCSD being a boring, academic school dwindles and we show everyone some colors!

It is a day when you see artists like B.o.B. and Michelle Branch.

You also get to see men and women walking around campus dressed up in strange outfits.

It is a day when we all get together!

Let's keep the sungod spirit alive; let's keep being friendly and fun. We are all in the UCSD community so let's reach out a hand and a greeting to one another every day!

In high spirits,

Jessica

PS Check out the Sungod Photo captures here~

Sun God Rice Recipe

Well I am naming this recipe in today's big event: Sun God.

This recipe is the easiest that I have posted so far.

Ingredients/Tools:

Soup of your choosing

Rice/Cooker

Can Opener:

Bowl

Fork

So 1st cook your rice

Second use a can opener that punctures the can, you want to remove the lable on the can, and puncture a hole on one side and then on the other side (2 holes give it air to replace the soup so it is easier to pour out)

And Mix. I add pepper =]

It is super easy, but super good. I like to use Amy's Organic Tomato Bisque, it tastes almost exactly like Chef Boyardee Canned Goods.... You can use any soup, Split Pea, Potato and Squash Bisque are my recommendations.

Now a lot of people do not have a can opener that can puncture but you can get one at Goody's Place and Market.

I buy most of my soup at Foodworx, but Earl's and the Village Place and Market also have a good variety.

So since EVERYONE is going to Sun God please be safe. If you are enjoying some of the more, well, frowned upon by authority liquids, make sure to EAT, it will make any side affects better tomorrow (I promise).

Angela =]

HEALTH=HAPPINESS -->Talk to Becky this Spring!

Hey Tritons,

I have done a lot of experimenting during my first year as a Transfer student.
.....I'm talkin about food!

You know the expression "starving student"? Well honestly, I couldn't ask for a better place to be one than at UCSD. There are sooooo many healthy ingredients in the P+Ms, and opportunities to eat healthy meals in the dining restaurants on-campus.

If you don't know about your options, and want to empower yourself, hang out with professional Registered Dietitian: HDH’s RD Becky McDivitt this Spring.

"You’ll see a lot of her around campus for RD in da House program, when she visits Dining restaurants to chat, introduce healthy snacks, and offer nutritional advice."

You can meet Becky at these events:

RD in da House / Spring Quarter
May 13 - Café V
June 2 - Canyon Vista

Time: 11am - 1pm

If you don't personally have any questions for Becky, please spread this news to people you know and care about.

"College is not just about grades, or experience, or any of that "security" stuff, it is about people." -Jessica Baltmanas

* Hilary

Friendships

Hello dear friends,

I hope you are doing great! I have lately been relearning the amazing gift that friendship is.

I have gotten so caught up in the activities of college life that I have forgotten the vital practice of having relationships with people. If you relate to this at all, take it as a sign before you get into it too deep! Love people before institutions, have compassion before living for a cause, and let that be the reason you live.

On the subject of friendship, I encourage revisiting old neighbors. I've done that a couple times today, it means so much to them! Let people know that you care, remember, and are thinking about them. College is not just about grades, or experience, or any of that "security" stuff, it is about people. Connecting with people. Building relationships with them. Learning from them. Loving them. That is what college is about.

So go on out there and live out your college experience!

Your friend,

Jessica

CHOCOLATE!

Yummy Yummy Chocolate!!!

So the Chocolate Festival at Sixth College was today.

The had fountains of dip-able chocolate, a cake walk game, a pie game, a hershey kiss game, cookies and milk pong, cupcake chairs, a sundae eating contest, a photo booth and inflatable obstacle courses. Everything had some yummy chocolate involved.

It inspired me to have a new dorm room rice recipe:

Chocolate Rice Pudding

Ingredients: Milk (Any P&M), Rice (Trader Joe's), Chocolate Syrup (Foodworx), Cane Sugar (Earl's), Butter (Foodworx), and Instant Chocolate Pudding (Goody's).

Cook your rice in a rice cooker =]

Mix the instant pudding and 2 or so cups of milk, it won't mix well until you add the rice.

Once rice is finished mix in a little butter, estimate 1 tablespoon.

Add rice to pudding mix

Sprinkle in sugar as desired (the pudding isn't very sweet on it's own)

Once well mixed add Chocolate Syrup for extra chocolate-y taste =]

Chill or just eat

Angela =]

Get yo Leadership on!!!

For all you seniors and underclassman alike......

Check out these FREE seminars that'll boost that confidence factor up a notch!


WED (5/5/10) ETS: Being an Assertive Leader

2:00 PM
Wed, May 5 - Roosevelt Rm, PC West Level 2

Express to Success: Learning how to express your thoughts, needs, and opinions is a critical skill for any leader. This workshop will focus on the development of assertive messages to help you get what you want. It will also help you learn the crucial skill of giving effective feedback to others.

Contact: gbagunu@ucsd.edu
URL: http://ets.ucsd.edu




(5/5/10) PASSPORT: Careers That Make a Difference Panel Discussion

2:00 PM
Wed, May 5 - Horizon Rm, Career Services Ctr

Passport to Leadership: Listen in as a panel of professionals gives you the inside scoop on careers with social impact. Learn how our panelists achieved their goals, how you can best prepare yourself for your career, and network with professionals! Presenters: Local professionals and Career Services Center staff. FREE and open to all students.

Contact: passport@ucsd.edu or 858-534-0789
URL: http://passport.ucsd.edu




(5/5/10) PASSPORT: Protecting Your Self-Image

4:00 PM
Wed, May 5 - Student Health Clinic 2nd Flr Conf Rm

Passport to Leadership: As leaders, we must be especially aware of our behaviors in public. Come learn more about actions that can hurt your public image and what you can do so others continue to see you as a respectable leader. Presenter: Lupe Samaniego-Kraus, Student Health Services. FREE and open to all students.

Contact: passport@ucsd.edu or 858-534-0789
URL: http://passport.ucsd.edu



Senior Special comin' right up....

THURS (5/6/10) ETS: Present Your Best Self! Public Speaking Skills for the Graduating Seniors

5:00 PM
Student Leadership Chambers, PC East Level 4

Express to Success: Whether you are speaking up in class, interviewing for a job, or giving a presentation, sharp public speaking skills make an impression adn allow you to present your best self to your peers, employers, or graduate school faculty. This interactive session will give you an overview of what it takes to be a successful speaker!

Contact: gbagunu@ucsd.edu
URL: http://ets.ucsd.edu


Above info was found on http://studentflyers.ucsd.edu/

Honestly for involvement/events, Student Flyers is one of the best resources you have access to as a UCSD student.

Try something new today!

:) Hilary