One significant advantage of having ever gone camping is that it frees you from a life of meticulous dish cleaning. You can always say: “I spent two weeks eating from pots that were scraped clean using rocks from the bottom of a creek, so who cares about this little smudge?”
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford.
Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.
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Good point. It is also interesting how tasty the food is from those dishes. In general, being outside is liberating. (Although I would not recommend going to the extreme in Lord of the Flies, which is the novel I just finished reading in the last three days.)
Exposure to relatively benign bacteria and viruses may also help prevent autoimmune diseases.
I think very few people endorse real-life reenactments of Lord of the Flies, and with good reason.
Maybe there is a beast!