Life of a college student

[thecoolnessrune]

Well last week it was reuniting myself iwth hot pockets and today i found in the fridge lunchables..

I haven't had lunchables since the 3rd grade. I see they still use Tombstone sauce. They actually make decent size little pizzas. Apparently now you can even make your own koolaid.. I haven't had koolaid since the third grade either..

And they even package a little airheads candy in there.

Neat stuff!

 

[rocadelpunk]

Isn't there a chipotle nearby?

$5-6 bucks for the equivalent of 1lb of food and really two solid meals.

 

[Q]

The pizzas are good if you put them in the toaster oven for a little bit

 

[Kaido]

George Foreman grill ftw

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
Isn't there a chipotle nearby?

$5-6 bucks for the equivalent of 1lb of food and really two solid meals.

Not even remotely close.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Darn.. I'm through all the stuff already.. Guess that's it till Supper.. Still a nice trip through time there

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: Kaido
George Foreman grill ftw

This. I got one at Target back before school started and it's awesome.

 

[Farang]

With the amount of money that crap costs you can buy real food

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
Isn't there a chipotle nearby?

$5-6 bucks for the equivalent of 1lb of food and really two solid meals.

Eh, isn't the equivalent of 1lb. of food... 1lb. of food?

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

We have heavily subsidized dorm food here - $3.25 for a full sized sub with anything on it, as long as you pay from your food account.

 

[BoomerD]

I don't think I could handle dorm life...I enjoy going home after classes where my wife fixes a nice hot meal made from "real food" not that crap youse folks eat.

I "lived" in barracks for my 4 years in the USMC. VERY much like dorm life I suppose. Usually 2 Marines to a room, ate in the chow hall, and scrounged what you could, when you could.
I worked several jobs where there was no housing available and the company set up "man-camps" for us to stay in. Again, not too much different than dorm life. We ate crap food in cafeterias which wasn't always that healthy or well prepared...

 

[blinky8225]

Don't you get a meal plan or something? We get $1600+/semester to do whatever we like with. As freshman we were guaranteed 7 meals a week and had $300/semester to do whatever we liked with.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Farang
With the amount of money that crap costs you can buy real food

I didn't buy it, that's the key You all did.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: blinky8225
Don't you get a meal plan or something? We get $1600+/semester to do whatever we like with. As freshman we were guaranteed 7 meals a week and had $300/semester to do whatever we liked with.

We do. It's "fall break". The cafeteria closed yesterday after supper. Won't be open again till Wednesday morning.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: blinky8225
Don't you get a meal plan or something? We get $1600+/semester to do whatever we like with. As freshman we were guaranteed 7 meals a week and had $300/semester to do whatever we liked with.

meal plans FTL.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
Isn't there a chipotle nearby?

$5-6 bucks for the equivalent of 1lb of food and really two solid meals.

Eh, isn't the equivalent of 1lb. of food... 1lb. of food?

lulz

A single Chipotle mean is two solid meals? I guess I didn't get the memo...

 

[IronWing]

Look around campus for posters for special seminars featuring guest lecturers and go. Often there is free food before/after the lectures. Bring a backpack.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
Isn't there a chipotle nearby?

$5-6 bucks for the equivalent of 1lb of food and really two solid meals.

Eh, isn't the equivalent of 1lb. of food... 1lb. of food?

lulz

A single Chipotle mean is two solid meals? I guess I didn't get the memo...

I'm guessing Chipotle is pretty much the same thing as Qdoba, and if that's the case, then no way is that 1lb burrito good for two meals.

 

[IronWing]

Volunteer at a local meals for the indigent program. You cook, you eat.

 

[LS21]

blog.yourestillinschool.com

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Look around campus for posters for special seminars featuring guest lecturers and go. Often there is free food before/after the lectures. Bring a backpack.

I have been actually No more of them till next month though..

I checked out the meal programs thing too. There's no openings. It's such a small town even the food shelter has all the people they need and dont want the crowding of extra people.

As for the blog comment, why not? It's a slow day.

 

[Soulchaser]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I don't think I could handle dorm life...I enjoy going home after classes where my wife fixes a nice hot meal made from "real food" not that crap youse folks eat.

I "lived" in barracks for my 4 years in the USMC. VERY much like dorm life I suppose. Usually 2 Marines to a room, ate in the chow hall, and scrounged what you could, when you could.
I worked several jobs where there was no housing available and the company set up "man-camps" for us to stay in. Again, not too much different than dorm life. We ate crap food in cafeterias which wasn't always that healthy or well prepared...

My friend is in the army and said they serve better food than the stuff we get here on campus. (He spent a year in college here before he got recalled.) I'm assuming that the army and the marines feed their soldiers relatively the same stuff. I actually like the meal plan food though, and it's nice to not having to cook.

 

[BoomerD]

I can't say that mess hall food was GOOD, but it was edible. Some of the crap they served in Vietnam wasn't quite so good...field kitchens often lack some of the basic necssities that stateside mess halls take for granted. Powdered eggs and some of the other "foods" designed for use in field conditions rarely taste good, but when prepared with a bit of care and ingenuity, can at least be edible and contain basic nutrition.
This is one reason that "CARE packages" from home are so important to our troops. (see the stickied thread from Grunt 03 here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2190470&enterthread=y )