Emma Ogden's Social Experiences: Case Study

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1. She did not worry about the campus food when she was touring schools, and focused more on the nursing programs and scholarship opportunities available. Now that she has had to eat the campus food for the past few years, she has had to change her lifestyle to stay fit and healthy. She has had to increase her workout activities to burn calories, eat more food off campus, and work more to pay for these added expenses. She enjoys eating with her friends, which was one benefit to the cafeteria. Now that she has to eat off campus, she feels like she is missing out on her social experiences here at school. When she needs to eat the campus food, she enjoys the steak and the pasta bar with a wide variety of veggie options. The campus food prices came up the most throughout the interview. This seemed to be a problem with her and most of her friends. Parking, the grilled …show more content…
Next I interviewed Emma Ogden, who also came to the school for the volleyball program and the beautiful campus. She loves the environment and tries to only eat food that is not involved wit the mistreatment of animals. She is sickened at how the caf serves food that looks as if it is filled with GMO’s. She tries to not eat any of the meat. She eats off campus a lot and her parents support this decision. She loves sushi and orders in almost every night. She enjoys the price, taste, and nutrition of the off campus food compared to the on campus food. She understands that certain food options at the cafeteria are okay, but she knows how mass-produced some of the items are and she will not eat them. She does enjoy mingling in the cafeteria though. The cafeteria is a major inconvenience for Emma. She wastes a lot of time getting the food she needs, which makes her already busy sport schedule that much more demanding. If she is going to pay a large amount for a meal, she wants it to be high quality. She feels that Chartwells robs students of their money with giving them low quality food at an outrageous

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