College Lesson Learned #49

#49- A free meal is always a good meal. 

Beggars can't be choosers, but to a college student, anything but cafeteria food is probably the best thing that every happened. It doesn't even have to be great food. If its edible and different and not the same old, then it will be scarfed down faster than a fat kid eating a twinkie (may you rest in peace).

This is why students love going home for breaks. Especially Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Turkey, ham, mash potatoes, and all that other stuff! Oh my goodness, I'm getting fatter just thinking about it. Probably one of the hardest transitions from high school to college was not getting six square meals a day, and none of the few we get are home-made. It kills me because my mom is a wizard in the kitchen. It's not even fair to whoever my future wife will be (unless of course I cook... we'll see). 

While you're at school, in order to get a decent meal you must go off-campus and pay money for it (with a few exceptions like Rush but we'll get to that in the College Lesson Learned 90's). So going home is the best time to capitalize on the delicious wonderfulness that is love.

Moral: You can't go home every day unless you commute, so when free food comes around, GET IT!