Freshmen take heed.  There is a way to avoid gaining the dreaded extra fifteen pounds.  Run away from fat people.  Do not under any circumstances form close relationships with overweight classmates.

Though recent news articles have stated new research links obesity with one's friends and companions, this one particular article gets a bit, eh, heavier.

The best quote: "If you spend more time with 'underweight or normal weight friends,' you're spending less time with overweight friends.  That's a mathematical and social fact, just like more time at the office means less time at home... By trading them in for thinner friends, you'd end up with just as many friends as you had before."