It's Wednesday night. Katie* hasn't slept since Saturday. She's not an insomniac. She doesn't have nightmares that keep her up all night. She stays awake on purpose, to study. Katie takes at least one Adderall when she wants to stay up all night, not get distracted by sleep or hunger and to study mass amounts of notes and readings.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That's the idea behind a new service chapter at Miami.
The thought of studying abroad for most students may seem a bit nerve-wracking. The language may be unfamiliar and the people might dress funny. There might even be a lack of Heinz Ketchup. But what most students don't realize is that returning and adjusting back to an American lifestyle can be even harder than the initial adjustment to foreign customs.
Zumba is an all-encompassing word. A collaboration of merengue, cumbia, cha cha, hiphop, mambo, samba, salsa, reggae, flamenco and reggaeton, "Latin-dance-fitness-workout would just be too long to say, so it's called Zumba," explains Miami grad student Lisa Dailey.
It's spring, 2008. Miami's Haines Food Court is crowded and bustling with hungry students. Zak Shugart, a sophomore at the time, sits at a table casually looking around and checking his watch. Suddenly, he slams his hand down on the table and shouts to the crowd, "Dang it! I forgot my drink!" Just then, a student dressed in a giant McDonald's milkshake costume rounds the corner at full sprint.
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