Students often fall into a pattern that sabotages the day: staying up at night to study, sleeping in as long as possible, getting up late, skipping breakfast, then rushing off to class. By midmorning, they're famished and the nearest food is in a vending machine. In response to junk-food snacks they skimp on lunch, and by dinner are so hungry again they chow down. Later rendezvous with friends often revolve around fast food and beer.