<p>MNFlyer – total match school for S! Awesome! I’ll tell him to start on his essay: I see college as the pickle in the hamburger of life.</p>
<p>This wasn’t a big deal for D (we considered things like class size, financial aid, location) but with S it will be at the top of the list.</p>
<p>Beat your kid up and force him to improve his habits! This eating is going to kill him soon and will probably be a major problem for him at colleges. Do whatever you can and good luck.</p>
<p>DD had a little fridge and a microwave in her room. She also kept some food in a rubbermaid container under her bed.</p>
<p>Pomona College has “snack” at 10 pm every weeknight in one of their dining halls. They serve a limited variety but ample quantity, and always have cereal and fruit, bread and sandwich fixings, but also often pizza, corn dogs, and other easy entrees and whatever beverages they normally serve. Apparently snack is extremely popular at Pomona and is an occasion to touch base with one’s friends as well as take car of the hunger pangs late at night when most of the town’s eating establishments have closed.</p>
<p>omg…classof2015…I literally almost spit out my lunch; too funny…</p>
<p>I will PM you…</p>
<p>campusfoods.com was a lifesaver when I was in school. It showed all the local participating restaurants (dozens in my college town), who was currently open, and you could get delivery even if it was a restaurant that didnt generally deliver. straight2yourdoor was similar-- you could get taco bell delivered at 3am. Very nice website.</p>
<p>My DS keeps food in his room. In addition to the usual ramen noodles and mac & cheese he likes the shelf-stable Indian meals from Trader Joes. I send him semi-healthy snacks on a semi-regular basis using Amazon prime. Last year he kept milk and cereal because he was on a 14 meals per week plan and did breakfast in the room, but of course could eat cereal as a late night snack too. He could get it with his dining dollars at a little mini-grocery on campus near his dorm. I don’t know if he still does that or not. They’re not allowed to take much out of the dining halls (which are all you can eat, ahem, all you <em>care to</em> eat).</p>
<p>One thing many undergrad classmates and I and friends on other campuses would do is to take advantage of the all-you-can-eat plans in our cafeteria to cram as much portable food/desserts/drinks into our emptied for the purpose backpacks to take back to our rooms to stock up for late nights. </p>
<p>In my case, it was restricted mainly to fruits(lots of apples, oranges, pears, etc), cookies, cereal, and soft drinks through cleaned out 2 liter bottles. :)</p>
<p>For many others, they would have special plastic containers carrying out second+ servings of main courses, side dishes, etc alongside the stuff I took. :)</p>
<p>There was also a bit of a tradition at my LAC of sneaking food out to feed the local homeless or hungry town residents who fell on hard times.</p>
<p>That’s a great idea cobrat. I will send him off with tupperware or its equivalent plus some ziplocs. I remember being so hungry at 11 pm – no money to order pizza; house kitchen was closed. If I’d thought of stockpiling food from dinner, I would have been in good shape.</p>
<p>I like the idea of helping others who are less fortunate too.</p>
<p>Pretty much all schools with “all you can eat” dining plans strictly forbid or restrict what you can take out. Definitely ask about that.</p>
<p>Ooh. Didn’t think of that – good point. I feel a Judd Apatow movie coming on…
The Hungry Freshman! (cut to scene of boy with turkey drumstick smuggled in his shorts…)</p>
<p>My son had unlimited food for one term only. Still, he was NOT permitted to take backpacks full of food from the dining hall. The students were allowed to take a piece of fruit, and they could request an additional boxed meal to go. But carting out backpacks of food was not permitted. The school had dining hall hours almost all the time and students could eat there almost all the time.</p>
<p>Kids may sneak food out of the dining halls even where it’s not permitted, but I wouldn’t want that to be your <em>plan</em> for keeping a hunger boy fed.</p>
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<p>Most students IME, especially those at my LAC who do this aren’t ones to ask for permission before doing it…especially when it comes to sneaking out dining-hall food to feed locals who fallen on hard times. </p>
<p>It goes to a saying I used to hear from some older folks…sometimes in life, it’s better to take the initiative and then apologize than it is to ask for permission only to risk a denial from an officious bureaucratic type.</p>
<p>Especially considering that the students’ parents or in my case…I was partially paying for my mandatory all-you-can-eat meal plan.</p>
<p>Hungry undergrads…or those who want to utilize their all-you-can-eat mandatory meal plans to their utmost tend to be the types who can get very creative in devising ways and means to satisfy their hunger through various low-cost/free methods…whether it’s sneaking out dining-hall food…or marking campus/local area free-food events down on the calender.</p>
<p>It’s not free food; the cost is simply being shifted to others who do follow the rules. </p>
<p>Every dorm room at my son’s college has a mini fridge and microwave in it. I take the kid grocery shopping whenever I visit/before I take him back to school, and I’ve also told him it’s okay to buy a good meal/get food delivered on my credit card periodically. (I’d be okay with his treating others to pizza, etc., either delivered or out; hasn’t done it yet, though.) He is very frugal, even with my money, so it’s rare that he will actually do that (and I have to encourage him to do so). Heck, when I take him grocery shopping, I have to stress that yes, he really can buy the more expensive (and better) option. </p>
<p>He doesn’t eat a lot, but he does like to have food available at all times. Tea, too; must.have.tea.</p>
<p>My S’s school has dining hall open all day until midnight.
He can walk in and out all day long with a card swipe, as many times as he wants. All included in his meal plan. No extra charges.</p>
<p>What school, SLUMOM?</p>
<p>no comment other than the title of this thread is hilarious!</p>
<p>Most people are afraid of the Freshman Five (back when I went to college) but nowadays I hear people talking about the Freshmen Thirty. </p>
<p>Classof2015 is worried about Freshman Minus Five! </p>
<p>I will join the club. My son is always hungry too.</p>
<p>PB&J. Cookies, Crackers, sandwhiches, and on and. The dorm should allow a fridge and microwave, and all the pizza places deliver to dorms. He’ll be okay</p>