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Originally Posted by victoriana
The campus has gone through a lot of changes over the past few years... they built a brand new student center with a ton of food places (Taco Bell, KFC, Wendy's, Subway, Sbarro)
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I thought you said
food places.
Back in the day, we had two types of dorms, food-plan-wise. If you chose a dorm with a cafeteria, you were required to put a (considerable) minimum dollar amount into a food plan - it was a declining-balance, use it or lose it plan. If you chose a dorm without a cafeteria (as I did), you could put whatever you wanted into your food plan, and you got a refund at the end of the year for whatever you hadn't used. Which saved my butt, as I lived in a non-cafeteria dorm with kitchens in every suite and I love to cook. The main cafeteria in the student center had various stations, including a Burger King (or was it a McDonald's?). No matter what I got there, BK, pasta station, salad bar, etc. - I got food poisoning. So I gave up. The student center also had a small market with a deli counter, so when I met my sisters or other friends for lunch at the main cafeteria, I bought a sub at the market (they made really good chicken subs) and went into the dining room through the back door.
I threw a couple hundred bucks into my account every year so I could get tea and a bagel on my way to morning classes. I typically got lunch at the food trucks (surprisingly cheap and healthy unless you went to the pizza truck
) and cooked my own dinner or went out. There was a small but good Indian food store a short walk from campus... good source for dhal, basmati rice, and Indian spices.