From ‘fat and poor’ to thin and thrifty
In the season of New Year’s resolutions and the country’s economic crunch, people may wish to start fresh — one calorie or dollar at a time.
Sam MacDonald ’95 took the initiative to do just that five years after he graduated from Yale. At the time, he weighed 340 pounds and found himself $15,000 in debt, paying to fix a broken-down Ford Taurus, and, of course, settling student loans. Somewhere between the Jonathan Edwards College Sextet and his six-days-a-week bar trips as a bouncer, MacDonald said his life was “completely unsustainable.”
“I was enormously fat and poor,”...
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11:07p.m. on January 13, 2009
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By Beth R.
12:05p.m. on January 14, 2009
Why is this a story? On the front page?
I am having mixed reactions to this story:
1) How typically Yale: screw around, write it down (Hey! Pay that clown!).
2) Nice to hear a story where "rock bottom" means overfed and marginally indebted (versus the usual crack-addict-makes-good-at-Old-Blue type stories).
3) Whoopee crap: our military servicemembers make that "sacrifice" every day (i.e., cut out all essentials, get fit, get a life). Of course, they are fit only to be denigrated by denizens of Yale. Go Bulldogs!
4) Good advice: I especially liked the "pay the consequences" part, something most Yalies (and Americans, generally) deny/avoid/transfer.
5) Congrats! Your life was an abomination to your Creator ("I Am" or Darwin, irrelevant). Of course, you are now worthy of contempt for "judging" your body type: the campus office of the NSPCFP will be knocking shortly.
As I said: mixed reactions...