The Bicycle: A College Student's Best Friend.

If you are in college, no doubt you get tired of walking from one class to another, or walking from your dorm room to class. Walking isn't bad. It's good. If you are in college, chances are you are over weight. Biking will help you while in college.

Let's look at how a normal day goes. If you live in a dorm or in an apartment complex near school, you might want to consider a bike. Have you taken a look at your school's parking lot lately? Unless you attend a private university, chances are your school's parking lot is full. Also, parking lots are the first thing to receive the dreaded "Under Construction" signs. At my school, UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) they are always under construction. Recently, they closed the road to the "overflow" parking, This road led to a parking lot very near the limits of the school. Walking to class would take about ten to fifteen minutes, if you are a college student you know how precious these minutes can be. If you were to ride a bike to school, you would not only cut this time down, but also get a workout.

Also, you can never have enough friends. Specially in college, you need to diversify your group of friends for the future. Here is where making friends may make a lasting effect on your life. Say you want to become an artist, and you have friends who are marketing students. Making friends with marketing students may help you out on your art career. How does this pertain to biking? How many liberal art majors do you see riding bikes? Stereotypes are partly true, and most of the people who ride bikes in school are liberal arts majors. Weird, but true. There are also many clubs you can join in school: check if they have a bike riding club. Yes, they have the weirdest clubs in college. A bike riding club is not weird.