Upgrading the College Diet: Late-Night Eating
When I was a kid, my mom would serve dinner around six-thirty in the evening, seven at the latest. At this time, the sky was still burnt orange and the prime-time sitcoms were just starting to buzz in our living room. After we finished eating, my mom would clean up, and my sister and I would work on homework or play until it was time to take a bath. Most nights, I was in bed by nine.
I can’t remember the last time I ate an evening dinner. Now, my typical dinner time is nine, long after the sky has turned black and the warm sitcom characters on my TV screen have been replaced by frigid local news anchors. My bedtime has also been adjusted, and now hovers around one in the morning. Between those two times, depending how restless I am or how much work I need to finish, dinner might not be the last time I eat before sunrise—I might grab a snack, or even go full throttle and have “fourth meal” (For the record, Taco Bell did not invent the fourth meal. Coeds across America have been slinging around that term for years.).
