The Dorms and Why I'm Starving
The school owns two buildings out of the five or six places they call student housing. I'm in one of the two they own, Sonoma Hall. It's five stories with co-ed floors. Each room has it's own bathroom, twin beds, walk-in closet (if you're lucky), and basic cable. I think I'm lucky with a pretty new matress, good looking carpet, and the bathroom doesn't scare me.
It sucks being right off the elevator, but I've learn to sleep with my headphones on. The building is old school, built in the 1920's. It had one of the cage elevators that will slam on you, if you're not careful. There's a water leak somewhere. Some people have water dripping in their bathrooms down the medicine cabinet.
For entertainment, there's a pool table (with several rips in the felt, no cue sticks, 8 ball is missing, and I swear there are three 4 balls) and a big screen TV. The couches are ripped just as bad as the material on the pool table, but the TV works.
I think it's a bit of a stretch calling it a dorm. There's no kitchen available, no refridgerators or stoves. There's a microwave in the lobby. The smart ones have mini-fridges or hotplates (which aren't allowed). I find it cheap to be at a culinary school and not be able to practice what you're learning. They're not willing to build a kitchen when they're is plenty of room for one. They would have to remodel the building and probably kick us out. I don't see that happening when they just started letting students move in July.
Eating out every day sucks. I don't have the money and besides, I like cooking better. So I eat a lot of Top Ramen, Easy Mac, potato chips, and cookies.
So, you're probably thinking that I could eat at school. Well, I can Monday thru Friday during the lunch break. Unfortunately, my Top Ramen tastes better than what they give us. They don't actually have a cafeteria. The majority of the food consist of what the culinar students made in class. The "cafeteria" sometimes will make bratwurst, chili, mac & cheese, rice, or some nasty crap. What sucks even more is that the new culinary students are at the south campus (with the B&P students). The only way for them to eat is to eat what they make in class. So, we get hand me downs that they don't even want to eat.
I stay away from any bread that the culinary students make and anything that's supposed to be to hot or cold. The "cafeteria" doesn't keep anything ice or in hot-holding equipment. After going through the Safety and Sanitation class, I'm afraid of everything in there.
The "Cafeteria" is closed on the weekends.
It sucks being right off the elevator, but I've learn to sleep with my headphones on. The building is old school, built in the 1920's. It had one of the cage elevators that will slam on you, if you're not careful. There's a water leak somewhere. Some people have water dripping in their bathrooms down the medicine cabinet.
For entertainment, there's a pool table (with several rips in the felt, no cue sticks, 8 ball is missing, and I swear there are three 4 balls) and a big screen TV. The couches are ripped just as bad as the material on the pool table, but the TV works.
I think it's a bit of a stretch calling it a dorm. There's no kitchen available, no refridgerators or stoves. There's a microwave in the lobby. The smart ones have mini-fridges or hotplates (which aren't allowed). I find it cheap to be at a culinary school and not be able to practice what you're learning. They're not willing to build a kitchen when they're is plenty of room for one. They would have to remodel the building and probably kick us out. I don't see that happening when they just started letting students move in July.
Eating out every day sucks. I don't have the money and besides, I like cooking better. So I eat a lot of Top Ramen, Easy Mac, potato chips, and cookies.
So, you're probably thinking that I could eat at school. Well, I can Monday thru Friday during the lunch break. Unfortunately, my Top Ramen tastes better than what they give us. They don't actually have a cafeteria. The majority of the food consist of what the culinar students made in class. The "cafeteria" sometimes will make bratwurst, chili, mac & cheese, rice, or some nasty crap. What sucks even more is that the new culinary students are at the south campus (with the B&P students). The only way for them to eat is to eat what they make in class. So, we get hand me downs that they don't even want to eat.
I stay away from any bread that the culinary students make and anything that's supposed to be to hot or cold. The "cafeteria" doesn't keep anything ice or in hot-holding equipment. After going through the Safety and Sanitation class, I'm afraid of everything in there.
The "Cafeteria" is closed on the weekends.
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