"The Forbidden Marshmallow Fruit?"

Eve fell into temptation as she ate the forbidden apple and God forever condemned her. As we saw in the Marshmallow video 2/3 of the kids ate the marshmallow though they were warned not to. They only had to wait 15 minutes; after the forever-long minutes were done they’d get two marshmallows instead of one. Rarely any of them waited, the white puffy sugary sweet was right in front of them ready to be eaten… Well in the case of these kids, they were ready to be swallowed whole. Exactly how does this relate to the typical college student? Well ever heard of self-discipline? Or how about self-control? They made it pretty clear in the video that if only the kids were more patient they’d have more then what they had when the experiment started. They had to plan ahead and see the big picture or as we say “The long shot.” Well yeah, college kids definitely know better then these much younger kids, or do they? How many times have we seen the average teenager go to a party instead of doing homework or study for a test the next morning?  The stats are very similar to the statistics of how many kids would eat the marshmallow instead of waiting to have two of them. Of course though, the teens that didn’t go to the party had a much better chance in passing the test or having a better grade of homework then the wild party craze adolescents that like to stay in the fiesta the whole night. So what’s the lesson learned? Avoid that little guy in the red suit with two horns called temptation; he likes to mess around with you once in a while.