When you first toured Marist, the beautiful dining hall looked like heaven with so many options and unlimited plates of whatever food you wanted. But when you actually began eating there every day, it didn't take long for you to realize the food didn't come close to your mom's home cooking. Slowly, however, you were forced to learn the ins and outs of what to eat and what not to eat.
Here are the 12 lessons every Marist student had to learn to survive the Marist dining hall.
1. Omelets are not worth an hour wait.
Do you really want to wait in line forever and then still end up eating eggs that aren't cooked the whole way through?
2. Always be nice to the woman who make your sandwiches.
Or suffer the consequences and have your sandwich burnt in the panini press.
3. Always flirt with the guy who makes your pasta.
You might actually get the sauce and toppings that you ordered, and if you're lucky, your pasta might also be hot instead of lukewarm.
4. Always yell when you order from the grill.
Yell clearly what you want, or get yelled at.
5. Don’t expect any fresh fruit or vegetables.
I recommend a local farmers market if you want to eat healthy.
6. “Home-cooked meals” are terrible unless they’re cooked at home by your mother.
Just steer clear of the home-cooked line altogether.
7.Except on chicken nugget Fridays.
Can we get them every Friday instead of every other, PLEASE.
8. Do not eat dinner until 7 p.m.
Anytime before then means having nowhere to sit and being run over trying to get in line for food.
9. Get seconds on sushi.
The sushi cooks are so kind, and since they only allow one three-piece roll at a time, definitely go up for round two (or three, or four).
10. Yellow and orange Jell-O doesn’t count as dessert.
No matter how many days a week Sodexo puts it out at the dessert station, Jell-O cups will never count as a dessert (not even on a diet).
11. Tuesday is the best day of the week because of CUPCAKE TUESDAY.
It's basically a day sent by the gods.
12. And pray that there’s a campus event for visitors, so that Sodexo actually gives us fresh fruit and good desserts.
Having tons of visitors on campus is totally worth it, just for the edible food. Marist, schedule a few more parents' weekends please!!
