<p>Mathmomvt, Wheaton College (MA) Chase Round Dining Hall open all day long until midnight…</p>
<p>Kenyon is a meal rate, and all you care to eat as often as you want to eat. What I love about them is that there is an honor code that you will note take anything that you wont eat. But its cool cause they can get coffee and an bagel, come back after class for a brunch thing, all day long can get food. Your son could eat all day long :-)</p>
<p>Bucknell’s meal plan has unlimited swipes throughout the day, also. The main dining center is open from 6am to midnight on the weekdays, and 8am to midnight on the weekends. There is also a cafe that is open 24 hours a day that has the BEST milkshakes, and pastries, sandwiches, fruit, drinks, etc. that you can take “to go”. The cafe is not on the meal plan, but does accept dining dollars (you do get some dining dollars with the meal plan you purchase and can add more if you run out).</p>
<p>It’s one thing to take a couple of pieces of fruit or even a PBJ sandwich for later on, but “backpacks full of food” and 2liter bottles worth of soda is crass behavior, cobrat. It’s not funny or cute.</p>
<p>Maybe he could study to shift his attention from food.</p>
<p>I’m kind of curious about that as my son is a late night eater. He rarely eats breakfast. He will have yogurt smoothies, but not food. Wondering how that works with a full meal plan?</p>
<p>You might look at student housing cooperatives; I live in one and have a pretty decent room and 24/7 access to a kitchen, which is stocked with food. If I’ve just gotten in from class and I am desperately hungry for Lucky Charms then I can go and get some, or if I just HAVE to make an omelet at 4 AM then I can do so. No dealing with Byzantine on-campus meal plans or dining dollars or anything like that. It’s dealt a blow to my efforts to lose weight, but oh well :)</p>
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<p>For many undergrads…especially young men, a PBJ sandwich and a couple of pieces of fruit isn’t remotely enough to satisfy a momentary snack attack…much less late night snacking needs or in the case of my college’s long established tradition, anywhere near adequate to facilitate the feeding of locals who fallen on hard times. </p>
<p>As for “rules are rules”, most at my LAC are of the opinion that rules which effectively allow much food that’s ends up being superfluous for that meal shift to go to waste or more importantly, impede the tradition of helping those who fallen on hard times should rightly be disregarded. </p>
<p>Fortunately, while the college officially frowns on such conduct…including the latter, it’s unofficially allowed with a wink and a nod even if most of us aren’t the type to care either way. </p>
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<p>Sometimes, it can be taken way too far. There was one saturday in which I became so engrossed in my studies from 7 am onwards that I only realized the passage of time when someone asked me what’s for dinner, I did a double-take, and found it was 8 pm and I missed all my meals for the day. :(</p>
<p>McDonalds-Hamburger U?</p>
<p>My son’s studies have not affected his appetite. He still manages to eat three solid dinners a night.</p>