<p>How are the dining options/dorm food at your college?</p>
<p>At mine, dorm food is all over the place. Sometimes its good, mostly mediocre, and sometimes pretty good. However they are restaurants on and off campus that offer good alternatives.</p>
<p>Also, how active is your dorm socially and what is dorm life like?</p>
<p>On the weekends, or right now (Christmas break), it is a ghost town.</p>
<p>^ Agree with awill.</p>
<p>Food at my university is decent. I’m a vegetarian, so there aren’t many options for me, but our entire cafeteria is a collection of popular restaurants (mostly fast food). Most people seem to like it. I’m so sick of the 2 dishes I’ve found that I can tolerate, though.</p>
<p>As for social life… most of our dorms are decently social. Mine is AWFUL. I haven’t seen more than 2 people in the halls, my roommate included. I absolutely hate the dorms and can’t wait to get out of them.</p>
<p>At my old school the food was pretty good, but really expensive.</p>
<p>At the school I’m going to be attending now, I haven’t heard wonderful things or horrible things. If I have a car I’ll probably make some lunchtime trips to the area diners.</p>
<p>edit: The dorm at my old school was waaaaay too active. Too many people only interested in going to parties and getting drunk each weekend. The only people who weren’t interested in that (parties are fine but in excess they get really boring) were me, this girl who always hung out with her other girl friends from high school, and this guy who always played video games. Which are also great, but again in excess…</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and tons of people being really loud at odd hours of the day. For example 1:30AM on a weeknight.</p>
<p>I thought the food at my old school was pretty bad. Very repetitive menu. </p>
<p>I can’t say too much about Binghamton, because I really only eat at the food court and that’s all commercial. I visit SUNY Cortland all of the time and I think the food there is great, actually.</p>
<p>The food in the dining hall is decent. There are some really good things (like their tortellini with alfredo sauce) and some really nasty things (as in, you can’t even tell what they are). Then there’s the Den which has good options such as quesadillas, burgers, french fries, wings etc.</p>
<p>Dorm life is pretty good. Most people live on campus, and the RAs are required to put on one program a month. People know each other on the floors and go out and do stuff together.</p>
<p>All the food at my school is awful, and I have extra trouble being vegetarian. </p>
<p>As for dorm life, people are pretty social, I guess. I found friends pretty quickly so I wouldn’t know how difficult it would be to make friends halfway through the semester/year, though…</p>
<p>The food at my school is good. The only reason someone wouldn’t like it is if they are picky or if they find the menu too repetitive. It’s generally well-made for something that is mass-produced.</p>
<p>Dorm life is good. People are friendly and social and there don’t seem to be any conflicts. Facilities are nice. RA sightings are rare or non-existent.</p>
<p>Food is really really good here. There are like seven dining halls among the five schools here, all with different specialties (Scripps’ cookies, Sushi night, Harvey Mudd Sunday brunch has crepes). I find myself eating a lot of the same stuff because I’m too lazy to go to the other campuses, but I really have no complaints.</p>
<p>Dorm life is the best. Good people, and once my roommate and I added a couch to our rather large room, we made it the place to be. I can’t wait to get back after break.</p>
<p>The on-campus eating places are pretty decent but I find myself eating pretty much the same things again and again (sushi, salad, protein bars, yogurt…) because I don’t want to touch the junk food, unless it’s dessert. </p>
<p>My freshman dorm was very active socially. Everyone would hang out in the halls and common room until 3 am in the morning every day. Now I live in a realllly quiet hall where the doors shut automatically and people just hang out with their own set of friends without much dorm interaction.</p>
<p>Campusfood.com ftw.</p>
<p>Tufts has pretty good food. There are only two dining halls (one a lot better and more popular than the other). Although the food can get repetitive, there is enough selection most nights to keep most people happy.</p>
<p>My College has only on dining hall. And the food there is pretty good, it just gets repetitive after a while. </p>
<p>As to dorm life it heavily depends on the dorm. My dorm is very social and I absolutely love it. However I know a few dorms where you don’t really see anyone ever.</p>
<p>I’m in a small residence hall, so dorm life is pretty nice. Most everyone knows each other and often times people from our floor go out as a group. </p>
<p>Food so far has been pretty good, nothing amazing but there’s always a good variety so I can find something to eat. The dining hall near our dorms was closed for the first semester so most of us had to walk quite a distance to the other side of the campus to get food. However it’s opening next semester so we’ll having a dining hall close by. There’s several others and some smaller cafes that are open throughout campus as well.</p>
<p>the food is fair at my dorm, but they respond to comment cards a lot. one time i asked for salmon and a month later they served some! it’s somewhat vegan and veggie friendly. their not very lactose intolerant friendly though. my friend is lactose intolerant and the thing she couldn’t wait to have when she got home was milk.</p>
<p>the dining locations are good. except for people who live on the north campus… they only have one on-campus option, or they can walk about 5 minutes downtown and get food there.</p>
<p>Penn had pretty good food options – the on-campus food, though, most people grew out of by sophomore year (as a freshman meal plan is mandatory). Aside from the fact that the food choices were, on the whole, somewhat repetitive, I wouldn’t say any of it was explicitly <em>bad</em>… just nothing to write home about. Although the food servers were sometimes quite rude. My only real complaint is that a lot of the food is typically unhealthy, but that isn’t to say there isn’t healthy food present. It’s just harder to pick out/find.</p>
<p>Other than that, we’ve got restaurants all over the place and food trucks at every corner. If you like a certain kind of food, you’ll find it in spades around campus. But don’t expect the dorm food to satisfy that same urge.</p>
<p>Well, the food is pretty decent and diverse. Salads, burritos, mash potatos, Chinese, pizza…the meal plans are great, though I got one that was WAY too much for me.</p>
<p>As for dorm life…I was living in a quad. Twice. After hating the first quad (for being too loud), I moved into a second, had a dispute over the room mate contract, and now I am living in a single with my own space, TV and all. 
It is quiet, usually, and I don’t talk or socialize with anyone who lives on my floor. That doesn’t really bother me, though. My dorm room is my SANCTUARY.</p>
<p>All of the dorms. at my school are all fairly new since the school used a lot of money in the past few years. Supposedly we have one of the best dorms. in the US too, in terms of quality and all. Not fond of how thin the walls are though… especially during nights in the weekend…</p>
<p>The school is known for culinary arts, but I like the food they serve at the cafeteria. We have some weird stuff that I would never eat at a restaurant but try it at the dining courts. Many students aren’t fond of the food though, don’t know why. Hard to choose which school I went to has the best dining food since Purdue has kick ass food too… But the rotation of the food is pretty bad that you get sick of it after 2 months…</p>
<p>Dorm food isn’t bad, they respond to comments all the time, since after all the students are paying for it! Most times in residence floors and wings go down and eat as groups which is always nice!</p>