{"id":36672,"date":"2014-09-10T06:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:19","slug":"college-and-diabetes-hello-senior-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672","title":{"rendered":"College and Diabetes: Hello, Senior Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36673 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg 600w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester.-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And goodbye, normalcy! My return back to school was nothing short of crazy, which means my diabetes has been a bit wild as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Labor Day, my family and I packed up two cars (!) worth of my belongings to bring back to school with me. Honestly, I didn\u2019t realize how much stuff I had until it came to loading it all in. Luckily, with their help, everything was put in its place by mid-afternoon \u2013 an impressive feat, considering it\u2019s taken us much longer in years past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The rest of the day was bittersweet. My parents, brother, and I went out to eat and then went our separate ways. I couldn\u2019t help but cry, just a little, when it was time for them to go. Granted, this was in part due to the fact my brother pulled me into a crushing hug that irritated my hip, but it was mainly because it dawned on me that it signified the beginning of my senior year. Where did time go?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The rest of the week was tiring, to say the least. I was running all over the place, attending classes, decorating my apartment, buying books, reuniting with my friends, and paying close attention to nutty blood sugars. So far, I\u2019ve had to deal with lows. Thanks to my CGM, I\u2019ve been able to catch them fairly early on. But what\u2019s been frustrating is that I\u2019ve had a few instances where I have to keep eating small snacks in order to keep my blood sugar up. I love food, but I don\u2019t particularly enjoy it when I\u2019m not hungry because I just finished a full meal not too long before indulging into yet another snack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This means that I\u2019ll have to adjust my ratio. I\u2019m not going to like this process. When I\u2019m at home, I have a standard insulin to carb ratio for each meal I consume. At school, though, it seems like I need to take less insulin in the morning and be a bit more aggressive in the afternoon and evening. With this in mind, hopefully I can figure out what works best for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019m also presented with an interesting challenge, one that I haven\u2019t had to deal with yet: food being forbidden in classrooms. Two professors made a point of stating this at the beginning of class. I understand that my classes are taking place in some brand new buildings, and that professors want to encourage their students to respect the property and not make a mess. I also understand that there may be allergy concerns. But what I\u2019m unsure of is whether or not they\u2019ll call me out in the middle of lecture for chewing glucose tablets to fix a low blood sugar. I took the initiative to e-mail one professor about this, and I\u2019ll have to sit face-to-face with the other professor because she doesn\u2019t accept student e-mails. I\u2019m oddly excited to do this because I\u2019ve never explicitly discussed my diabetes with a professor. I\u2019m keeping my fingers crossed that the conversation goes well. So that\u2019s where I\u2019ll be on Wednesday, in between my Human &amp; Animal Alternative Medicine seminar and my English 494: Dystopian Games, Media, and Comics class. And I know you\u2019re probably a little jealous that these are real classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>College and Diabetes: Hello, Senior Year!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My return back to school was nothing short of crazy, which means my diabetes has been a bit wild as well.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Molly Johannes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672\",\"name\":\"College and Diabetes: Hello, Senior Year!\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-10T10:43:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T20:47:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/623ae95e59042a0181d7249ae80f9e18\"},\"description\":\"My return back to school was nothing short of crazy, which means my diabetes has been a bit wild as well.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/My-awesome-textbooks-for-this-semester..jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":379,\"caption\":\"My awesome textbooks for this semester.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36672#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"College and Diabetes: Hello, Senior Year!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\",\"name\":\"ASweetLife\",\"description\":\"The Diabetes Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/623ae95e59042a0181d7249ae80f9e18\",\"name\":\"Molly Johannes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f996a9325de8e57234e2c6d9727bd93d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f996a9325de8e57234e2c6d9727bd93d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Molly Johannes\"},\"description\":\"Molly Johannes was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1997 at the age of four. 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