Several of my nieces and nephews are in college now. This summer, while getting things ready for their kids' apartments, my sisters went out and purchased new mattresses and furniture. I thought they were a little nuts for spending that money. When I think back to my first college apartment, my roommate and I had a couch we bought for $10, an entertainment center we found on the side of the road, and a chair we found abandoned at the apartment complex. After reading this article about bedbugs, however, I think my sisters did the right thing by not letting their kids go garbage picking for furniture.

College campuses and dormitories are like a luxury resort for these blood-sucking little critters. Students frequently visit each other's rooms (possibly transporting little friends as they do so). Universities like Texas A&M, Ohio State, Stanford, and the University of Florida have had to deal with outbreaks of bedbugs.

Bedbugs are hard to spot. Waking up with small, red welts is one tell-tale sign. You may also spot tiny black or reddish-brown spots on your sheets.

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There are all kinds of medical oddities that many of us share but very few of us understand. Like what the 'funny bone' really is, why yawning is so contagious, and the science behind a 'brain freeze.' Well WebMD is clearing up those mysteries, along with a few others such as whether or not you can pop an eye out if you sneeze too hard (you can't, by the way). The biggest surprise to me? Bed bugs. I always thought they were real, but I was under the impression that they were some kind of practically microscopic organism that didn't actually bite. But in reality they're 1/4" long (that's HUGE!), reddish colored, and they DO bite. Yuck!!!

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