Sometimes all you want is some good, home-cooked food. Luckily, it isn't impossible to get some in college—you just might have to make it yourself. Here is an example of how cooking in a college dorm typically works out.

1. While taking a study break (or procrastinating), you end up on Pinterest salivating at the thought of food that doesn’t come from your dining hall.

2. You find a recipe that looks just too good not to try to make.

2. You then go to a grocery store and realize you are a broke college student and that food is really expensive.

3. Reluctantly, you fill your grocery cart and mentally calculate how much money is going to be left on your debit card.

4. You return to your dorm and take a look at the communal kitchen that is covered in who-knows-what and cringe as you try to make it slightly less gross.

5. Then you may attempt to actually cook your meal and start to prepare your ingredients.

6. But then you realize you don’t have a saucepan. Or a chopping knife. Or most kitchen items you used to take for granted.

7. As your visions of a meal Martha Stewart would be proud of slowly diminish, you realize that you still have all this food and can at least make something out of it.

8. You figure out a way to make it work and realize that whatever you are creating actually smells good, and so far you haven’t burned anything!

9. The food looks good, smells good, and is somewhat presentable looking.

10. You sit down with a few good friends and enjoy a non-dining hall dinner.

11. And last but not least…you realize you still have to clean a bunch of dishes and suddenly, you remember why you don’t cook.