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- Sorry for late update I remembered about this around 12:30 AM today hrurhurhur

Food:

There are three options when it comes to food here: go to dinning hall, use your dinning dollar, look for restaurants.

There are three dinning halls here, but I usually don't go to one of them because it is simply too far from everything. Also, even though the hall claims itself as international dinning hall, there is nothing really international about except for noodles. The other two are called East and West; while East has more food options, West offers stir-fry which is very popular among the students and has long waiting line. Not only that, West opens late and closes early (it opens at 2 PM on Sundays, yea who cares about breakfast or lunch before two). Naturally, East dinning hall is popular choice around students.

They seem to change the menu everyday, but all of them feels like the same thing for me. In East hall, they have pizza/ pasta station, subway-style sandwich station, burger station, put-everything-in-and-fry-them station, salad bar, and thanksgiving-dinner style food station. They have horrible pasta (the sauce is fine but the pasta is inedible) but the rest are fine. Fine as in they are not fantastic but they are not shitty either. Amazing thing about East hall is that they have Coco-puffs cereal - having it as breakfast makes your morning better.

The best part about the dinning halls would be the desserts. Not only they have traditional stuffs such as cookies and brownies, they also have soft ice-cream machines. The flavors can be rated as following (vanilla is default) : chocolate espresso > strawberry > maple syrup > lemon custard > orange cream. Today, I tried adding chocolate espresso + vanilla swirl in to black coffee (I can't guarantee that it is black coffee but the color was black). Despite the disapproval of my friends, it actually tasted fine. I don't usually drink coffee because it is too bitter, but adding ice-cream kind of produced the same result as adding cream, sugar, and milk at the same time. Only downside is that mixing hot coffee and cold ice-cream makes lukewarm mixture.

I recommend trying this method if you're fine with drinking lukewarm coffee.

Dinning dollar can be used for in-campus cafe, fast-food, and stores. Personally speaking, going to the dinning hall is better since you have to use all the dinning passes you have left within a week. To be honest, if you're like me and don't eat breakfast on days without 8 AM classes, 15 dinning passes are more than enough. In our campus, you can exchange up to 3 passes with points that could be used to purchase foods such as yogurts, chips, and whatnot.

Unless your campus is located in middle of nowhere, there bound to be restaurants near by. I have quite a number around me and my friend group would go to one of those places either on Saturdays or Fridays - it became some kind of tradition.