Dorm Food

Soft serve ice cream at every meal!!!

The quality of dorm food varies significantly from school to school. But, whatever the quality, there will always be students who love the food and students who hate it. Some students are just glad to be able to eat three times a day. For others, dorm food creates the need to eat out three times a day.

Dorm food is usually mass-produced, has been sitting under a heat lamp for an hour, the same thing you ate last week, and made of low quality ingredients. 14 meals a week is a fairly standard plan. If you do the math, you end up paying about $8 to $10 per meal. So you are basically paying for restaurant quality food but getting fast-food.

Here are some tips from students on how to make the best of your school's dining halls:

1. Use your meals, each meal you don't use is $8-$10 down the drain. At the same time, don't starve yourself, go out to eat if you have to.
2. Take advantage of whatever variety is provided so you don't get sick of certain things. Do this by adding a piece of fruit and a salad to your tray.
3. There are many different dining halls on campus. Often times, they serve different food or specialize in a particular type of food (i.e. Italian or stir-fry).
4. Be on the look-out for the dreaded "Freshman 15"; with all you can eat buffets, and ice cream at every meal, it can really sneak up on you.