For my last post on our Citizen Appetites blog, I decided to write about my experiences in LC13 here at Wagner College. When I chose this LC I had no idea what to expect from the classes I would be taking. All I knew was that I was a food lover and anything related to food interested me. It was interesting once I got into my classes how much knowledge could be gained from looking at the world through a food lens. The history of food and food ways has been used to uncover the history of New York City. I learned about New York City history dating back to the Lenape Indians. I particularly enjoyed my psychology class because I like knowing about why humans and animals do what they do. Within our psych class we learned about food and nutrition and the interactions these things have with humans. After our lessons in our psychology class, I would leave and apply lessons I learned to my own eating habits and friends eating habits. Most recently my friend decided to tell me that I should not be eating so many potatoes because carbs are “bad for you”. However, I learned that this idea that carbs are bad for you is false. What really matters is how much you consume of that food. The lessons I learned in my LC are ones that I am grateful for learning and knowing about because it knowledge that can be applied to everyone’s lives. As humans, we all need food to survive. It was interesting learning in depth about food and its connections with history and psychology.

Here’s a picture from orientation weekend at Wagner with some of us in LC13. Happy Holidays to everyone, this semester has been a fun ride! 🙂