<p>I come from a Cuban family and love to cook food and I'm not too big a fan of eating the same thing every day, or eating junk food. Is there access to a kitchen for people living in dorms?</p>
<p>There are small kitchens that students can use in the dorms. The Mac website has floor plans of all the dorms which will show where these are located. Macalester students have access to lots of great restaurants in the twin cities for those times when you want to splurge.</p>
<p>Have you visited Macalester? The food selection is awesome, no need to eat the same thing everyday. There are tons of healthy choices as well. The food was definitely a draw for me as I too do not eat junk food. I stayed at Mac for three days, ate something different everyday and it was always healthy! It is like having a very diverse food court at your disposal.</p>
<p>There's also MAC Soup, a student organization that makes soup every Friday. I'll just bet you could find a place to cook when you want, but Mac had the most interesting, delicious and diverse food choices of any of the (20) colleges we visited.</p>
<p>Mac's dining hall food is the best I've come across, but it sounds like you'd enjoy cooking for yourself some as well. Unfortunately you'll have to pay for 19 meals a week for your first semester, but you can choose not to use all of them.
Most of the dorms have kitchens on every floor, so if you bought some pots you could easily make a good meal. However, Dupre doesn't have full kitchens, so I recommend you write on your housing request form that you like to cook and for that reason don't want to be in Dupre; I can't imagine they'd go against that request.
I think Mac soup only meets once a month, but I could be wrong. Anyway, the group definitely has a lot of fun cooking together. A lot of the cultural groups also have special dinners. And I hear the kitchen in the chapel basement is so student-ready it's even stocked with the stuff to make cookies :) You really shouldn't have a problem.</p>