<p>Sorry if it sounds a bit ridiculous, but my son loves the food there and was wondering if there was one that was within walking distance to the school?</p>
<p>How about having him google search for himself?</p>
<p>Yes. It is on Thayer.</p>
<p>To up the snark:</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You”>LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You)</p>
<p>This is a search criterion? When I answered your question on the Harvard board (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1360882-restaurant-near-harvard.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1360882-restaurant-near-harvard.html</a>), I assumed your son was going to Harvard. I also gave you a link to the restaurant locator on Chipotle’s web site. It’s free. You can use it all you like.</p>
<p>Is this seriously a consideration in determining where your son would choose to apply or enroll? I’m…more than a little surprised.</p>
<p>Yes, Sikorsky, very serious. We are in Spain right now and he wants to go home because they do not have Chipotle here. </p>
<p>T26E4, Is there a search feature on google that allows one to quickly look up 30 colleges and the streets near them for Chipotle?</p>
<p>eszett, thanks.</p>
<p>Just because that’s such an uncommon search criterion, I’d guess that there’s no such search feature. Your best bet may be to get the locations of those colleges (shouldn’t be too hard) and plug them into the Chipotle location finder. It shouldn’t take very long to do this (since one probably shouldn’t apply to a school if one doesn’t know what town it’s in anyways). Getting information off the internet is a helpful skill to have, so it’s probably worth his time to do so.</p>
<p>Wait a sec, he’s in Spain now, with all that delicious, real Spanish food, and he wants Chipotle? There is something very very wrong with this picture.</p>
<p>Uroogla, You are probably right, he should do the search, except we are here in a small sleepy coastal village in Spain where I am paying a Euro for 20 minutes of internet time.</p>
<p>This may be the single most ridiculous thread I’ve stumbled across on College Confidential.</p>
<p>fireandrain, tell me about it.</p>
<p>Well, color me surprised again. I think if I were paying for Internet access, I would wait until I got home to research my Chipotle question.</p>
<p>On the other hand, since my kids were born, I have done an awful lot of stuff I would not have predicted I’d do. In 19 years I have not learned a whole lot about raising children, but I have learned to stop saying, “I will never…”</p>
<p>Sent from my DROIDX using CC</p>
<p>^Good morning from sunny Spain, where even the public library gives you just 30 minutes of free internet time. Yes, things are more expensive here. Although, the real estate prices have fallen more than 50% compared to a few years ago.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize Spain was having Internet austerity, too!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the Chipotle near Brown is so awesome !! Its just a couple if minutes walk from the Main Green and opposite the Avon Cinemas :)</p>
<p>The Chipotle on Thayer tends to be stingier than the one in Warwick, FYI.</p>
<p>My student raved about Chipotle and pined for it in the summers at home, then found out there was one at home for the past few years just “not a big deal” here, just another chain, lol.</p>
<p>Perazziman, I feel for you. Picky eaters are difficult. But I think you have 2 choices:
- “Son, I know you only like to eat Chipotle. We are in Spain now. If you see one (wink) I’m willing to stop so you can order a burrito bowl (or whatever). I will even pay for it. If you don’t want to eat anything, ever, in this country, that’s fine too. The rest of the family will be dining at many fine places. Feel free to order off those menus if you choose. Regarding your college search, if this is that important to you, you will have to figure out a way to get this info. Hint: the public library here will give you 30 min of free Internet time per visit. Second hint: college addresses are available on the Internet. Third hint: chipotle has a website with a store locator. Now I’m done. Use whatever skills you would normally apply to, say, getting on Facebook, and go to town. Feel free to use your own $$ at an internet cafe, too, fir example. If you decide not to research this, btw, that’s fine too. I will not be, however, driving/flying to visit you daily at college to deliver Chipotle. Oh, and one other thing: discussion over. Forever. No more complaining. We are going to lunch. Want to come?”
- “Son, I know you only like Chipotle, and I want to show you that finding you the food you like is of paramount importance to me, because your needs supersede all others. Because you have been so delightfully expressive about this, I will pay for Internet access, I will go to the library, I will post in multiple forums on CC, I will do whatever it takes to get you that burrito bowl whenever you want it! Oh, and regarding the college search, don’t worry, I will be taking care of every detail for you. I support your need for black beans, and if for any reason, you find yourself without them, or unhappy with anything at all at college, or in life for that matter, I will try my hardest to fix it! And please get used to this, because others will be doing this for you for the rest of your life: your roommates, your professors, your boss, your wife (don’t worry, I’ll have a handbook for her on how to meet your needs), all will rush to satisfy you as i have. So it’s probably good that you are getting used to that now. And by the way, keep complaining that you miss Chipotle while we are here in Spain. As you can see, the squeaky wheel gets whatever it wants. Frankly, I can’t believe the Spanish haven’t opened one up here after how clear you have made it that you are unhappy.”</p>
<p>Of course I exaggerate a bit. But really just a bit. There are only these two possible messages that you can give him, no matter what you say or do. </p>
<p>Choose wisely, and good luck!</p>