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Student #12 Testimonial - "Lost 16 lbs This Term" 

Student: "So, um, when I first started going to PCC, um--I'm a student, and I also work here in the Environmental Center, and when I first started taking classes, I was a full time student, and I didn't really realize what that entailed. And so, um, it was hard for me to kinda conceptualize all of the work that would be put on me. And so, um, I was doing all the work, getting good grades, but I wasn't eating, and I wasn't, um--I didn't have the. . .I didn't know of any resources, also: I don't really know at what point I began, um, accumulating resources through PCC; I think I just sort of stumbled upon certain resources, but there was a good chunk of time where I was definitely under-resourced and undernourished and I wound up losing sixteen pounds over one term, and have since then struggled to gain the weight back, and it's been this pretty turbulent experience through every term.

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Nowadays, I'm doing okay, I'm--I'm a part time student now. I know now that I cannot be full-time, which is unfortunate because statistically, those who become part-time, it's--they don't typically graduate; your chance of graduating is less; I don't really know why. Um, but yeah, I--yeah: Part time student now, and it's definitely a lot easier to find time for food, and I'm able to, like, actually utilize the resources, cause I have the energy to do so, um. But I also feel like I'm not doing enough, I feel like my workload isn't enough, I feel like there's all these things that come with that that I didn't expect, a lot of like, feeling, I guess, I dunno; I keep using the term 'Imposter Syndrome', like nothing I do counts sort of a feeling, which is unfortunate. I dunno, I think that's something I always dealt with but I think it's been exacerbated since, like, taking on less, and so I think that--cause there's so many expectations on campus, right? Or just in general; in life, I guess."