<p>I have read about great campuses, yea they are all gorgeou.. what about the rooms where we will spend most of out times !</p>
<p>Which Universities has the best rooms and meals ?</p>
<p>Cornell supposedly has the best food, but I prefer the restaurants in Collegetown and Ithaca. Cornell also has some nice new dorms for freshmen and for upperclassmen (as well as some older dorms...sign up early to avoid the older dorms).</p>
<p>another vote for Cornell. </p>
<p>freshmen dorms are typically very nice. I've heard people call their dorms "court hotel" or something like that.</p>
<p>For upperclassmen, all of the crappy ones are being torn down, and new ones are being built as we speak. In a few years, west campus should be alot like North. The new dorms are quite amazing as well. </p>
<p>And the food is the best at Cornell. I transfered in, so i am able to compare Cornell food with that of another college. No real comparison. I'm also basing this on visiting a bunch of my friends at various colleges around the northeast. All of their food sucked!!! It may be expensive, but a big dinner at RPCC or NorthStar just can't be beat. I believe that NorthStar was rated the #1 dining hall in the country by some food magazine ... they used to have an article posted in Appel commons.</p>
<p>Wash. U. is ranked #4 for best food in the county, and #11 for "Dorms like Palaces" by Princeton Review.</p>
<p>Best dorms: Pomona. Pepperdine, Trinity University, Scripps, University of San Diego</p>
<p>I know first hand that WashU has excellent food. BU supposedly is pretty good too.</p>
<p>Best dorms: Loyola(MD), university of southern indiana</p>
<p>I'll agree with the food for Cornell. I've regularly had food at Stanford, UFlorida, Penn State, and Central Florida, and even Cornell's crappiest dining hall blows that competition away.</p>
<p>We ate in a lot of dorms while visiting schools; it may have been a fluke (one meal only) but the hands-down winner was Smith. Nice dorms too!</p>
<p>UCLA has some crazy good food. The dorms are a little small compared to others, but hey, they food is GGGGRRREEEAAAATTTT</p>
<p>i've heard bowdoin has great food.</p>
<p>What makes Cornell food so good? What do they serve? I have a friend who's at Cornell now and he's raving about his single dorm as a freshman and the unbelievably delicious food. The only complaint he has is the vomit in the bathrooms from the local resident drunks lol.</p>
<p>Bowdoin! Good food, big dorms--I'm a first-year and I have a 2-room double yay</p>
<p>thisSHHHisBANANAs........great ad for Cornell. Who cares how good the dining hall is if the bathrooms are so repulsing.</p>
<p>hazmat - have you ever been to any college dorm on a saturday? Puke all over the dorms and bathrooms. Staff cleans the bathrooms 5 days a week. But, like every college out there, not on saturdays or sunday. I guess i'm one of the lucky ones that hasn't had to deal with this stuff on my floor yet. I guess it's alot worse at party-style state schools.</p>
<p>thisSHHHisBANANAs - it can be hard to describe the food at Cornell. Take a bite of food at another college, and compare it to Cornell. You'll certainly see then. The selection is second to none - 8 all you can eat dining halls, and i think over 20 a la carte places are around campus. This means you'll always find something you like. Some dining halls put a focus on international style food, while others specialize in vegetarian meals. The food is expensive, but the school doesn't cheap out when it comes to providing food either. It's quite impossible for me to list everything that a single dining hall has ... not enough patience. If you really want it, they'll likely have it in some form or another. I think NorthStar dinning in Appel was rated the #1 dining hall in the US. I read some article about it a while back.</p>
<p>I ate during off hours at the RISD cafeteria. The sandwiches were made of fresh crusty bread, and they used REAL off-the-bird turkey. There were none of the pressed turkey crap that usually gets served. They even had 4 different types of colorful smoothies. I vote for RISD</p>
<p>I visited Washington University and their new dorms are really nice. Brand new and very clean! They quads, but there are two bedrooms with two ppl each in them and a bathroom in between. It seems like a nice setup, only four people sharing a very clean, new bathroom.</p>
<p>my daughter has a townhouse- two bedrooms two baths that is shared by two people- and considered to be "student housing"
She has the option of having a small meal plan or none at all.
The dining hall is small- but nice
floor to ceiling windows that overlook the wooded canyon/lake
many options for meals-
salad/soup bar ( where I had the best dal ever)
various pizzas by the slice
a grill where they cook to order
sandwich station " ditto"
Several main dish options including vegan
I know I am missing something-
<a href="http://www.bamconw.com/reed/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bamconw.com/reed/</a>
I imagine it can get fairly boring no matter how decent the food it at a very small school- but students also live in a city with great restaurants- and my daughter has a fruit stand closeby so she doesn't even have to trek to the Safeway or Trader Joes for snacks </p>
<p>The UW is also supposed to have good food available- haven't heard positive things about the rooms though</p>
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Recently, I visited the dining room in McMahon Hall at the University of Washington, and everything I thought I knew about college cafeterias is now officially obsolete. An herb garden has sprouted on the roof, and where only processed food once stood lifeless in stainless-steel steamer trays, a dazzling array of fresh food has blossomed in its place. Nursing homes and hospitals have yet to surrender, but one of the last bastions of prefab-food-from-the-past may have been conquered.</p>
<p>The revolutionary behind this dramatic change is executive chef Jean-Michel Boulot. A refugee from the white-table-cloth world of fine dining, no one could have been more capable or more unlikely than Boulot. In France, Boulot wore the top toque at the Michelin-rated Restaurant La Dariole. He was executive sous chef for the celebrated Ma Maison at the Hilton International in Bangkok, and executive sous chef at two Ritz-Carlton hotels. In the Northwest he spent time at Vancouver's Restaurant Le Beaujolais and brought considerable attention to Earth & Ocean Restaurant in Seattle's W Hotel. So it was more than a little stretch for Boulot to assume the mantel of ordinariness we associate with college cafeterias.
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So Boulot pulled together a formidable team of chefs from area restaurants. James Watkins, who serves as North Campus Dining executive chef, was best known for stylish American food at his Madison Park eatery, Jimmy's Table. Tracey MacRae, sous chef now, had a devoted following at The Kingfish Caf_And Central Campus Dining executive chef Eric Leonard had established himself at The Hunt Club in Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.</p>
<p>Watkins says the university job is "the most rewarding work I've ever done in the food-service business. . . We're really doing something meaningful, bringing real change to a part of the industry that desperately needs it, and providing real food to real people."</p>
<p>"There are so many good parts about working here," says MacRae, "that it's hard to say what the best part is. But right now, I'd have to say it's the staff seeing them wake up to how fun it can be to cook great food."</p>
<p>Leonard put it this way: "I'm feeding 5,000 people a day with fewer than three complaints a month; that's success by any measure. And these are college kids; they're genuinely hungry. It's so much more gratifying to feed these people than to try and satisfy a jaded diner in a fine-dining restaurant."</p>
<p>"We knew when we began," says Paul Brown, "that we had only one chance to get it right."</p>
<p>It would seem they did.
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<p>I live in a dorm. I have not encountered anything like what you are describing but I am well aware that such problems exist.</p>
<p>University of Maryland College Park has a very good campus. Its large. It has like everything you need. And they also have a new recreational room. I attend the school by the way. The cafeteria food is not but they have many resturants surrounding the campus.</p>