D is enjoying the food, I think things have changed a lot in the 4 years since this thread began. She says she misses homecooked meals (she might have just said that to me to make me feel special :))but finds a different kind of fish each night there (she doesn’t eat other meats) and quinoa and kale and salad and stuff she enjoys.
She says it’s better than Brown’s food, where she spent much of two summers.
PS: she says there can be long lines at peak hours but she doesn’t go at peak hours (they actually have a web page that hsows how crowded it is at the moment, and added grab n go so students can get lunch fast and take it with them) . Also the hours have been extended:
Valentine Hours
Breakfast: 7:30am - 10am
Continental Breakfast: 10am - 11am
Lunch: 11am - 2pm
Dinner: 4:30pm - 8:30pm
Other Locations
Frost Café: 9am - 10pm
Grab-N-Go: 11am - 2:30pm
Lewis-Sebring Commons: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Schwemm’s Gourmet Coffee House: 3:30pm - 12am
You can look at menus for every meal here: https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/dining/menu
Wow I am so glad none of my kids even considered Amherst. One was interested briefly in Williams but decided it was too cold. Boy am I glad. Not because I’d worry about the food. My kids go with the flow; they’d not see it as much of an issue. On the other hand if the OP is characteristic of the type of student at Amherst, they could not deal with that! They aren’t used to entitled brats. I don’t know how they would handle it if they encountered self important little snits. Don’t know if they are common there but seems possible. And if the place were full of them, I can’t imagine my kids wouldn’t be itching to get out of there. Can you imagine having to serve entitled snits? Not only should the servers earn more than $10/hour but they should get hardship pay for having to deal with entitled brats.
And the follow-up post confirms the attitude. Rich people want better food then poor people. They deserve sardine but you deserve better. LOL. The problem isn’t the food! It is the entitled attitude of the students. No matter what you think of the food, suggesting the workers should not make a living wage shows how pathetic you are. They are probably taking less home each week to feed their family and pay the rent ever two weeks then you waste in a month. You are the one, OP, who is undeserving of what you have. Your parents did you no favors by spoiling you and sending you to a school where you will interact with other entitled students who feel others are beneath them. The post just wreak of snot!
Yes, after reading the entire thread I must say that I am so glad my kids didn’t consider Amherst. The posts reflect entitlement, thoughtlessness (as in immense cluelessness), and lack of worldliness/sophistication.
I’m sure that the students with the entitlement issue spent time during their high school years “volunteering” -tokenism-throwing a few crumbs to people in need. And I bet essays they wrote highlighted what great deeds they did. But the attitude that is expressed on these posts is about as far from charitable as you could get.
There is nothing wrong with complaining about the food. Maybe there are students at Amherst who have the skill to go beyond complaining to organize an effort to change things. But the arrogance expressed by the OP, particularly about the workers and again when addressing the responses to the OP suggests that unfortunately the OP is pretty lost and sadly unaware for a college student.
OP, you may want to consider these questions. It might help you gain awareness of the world beyond the silver foot in your mouth. Do you think that the workers buy the produce? Do you think that the workers are responsible for the recipes? Do you think that the workers are responsible for where the raw ingredients are purchased and whether it is low or high quality? Do you think that the workers determine the profit margin? Can you imagine what it must be like for workers who have to deal with a bunch of complaining 18 year olds-particularly of the ilk similar to the OP?
OP, it does not seem as if you have traveled much or been very independent. Sometimes it takes travel and the need to take care of oneself in order to help spur maturity. I hope that comes. PS, I’ve worked for food services. Not the most rewarding or awarding job. Would hate it if someone begrudged me the pittance that I was paid!
@lostaccount you realize the OP posted this almost 5 years ago and is long gone, both from Amherst and CC?
Wow. I have no idea where all that vitriol came from. OP was a little bit over the top, but the rest of the thread did not “reek of entitlement.” Quite the opposite, actually.
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