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12 Stages Of Going To The Dining Hall, As Told By 'The Office'

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Becca Taft

Feb 19, 2018

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12 Stages Of Going To The Dining Hall, As Told By 'The Office'

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If you go to a college where the food is amazing and you're content with the offerings of the dining hall, please stop reading.

If you go to a state school where there is simply no budget for decent food, or a private school that's just either cruel or lazy... this is the article for you. Keep reading and weep with me.

1. Walking in, and realizing you're actually paying money for the culinary monstrosities you're about to witness.

2. Trying to be optimistic as you're looking over the delectable choices.

3. Seeing something that looks semi-good, then walking up to it and seeing a fly sitting on it.

4. Finally accepting that nothing else looks edible and you're going to have to eat yet another salad.

5. Making your sad salad and seeing the vegetables floating in their own filth water.

6. When the salad tongs spazz out in your hand and you drop onions all over the floor right as a large group of people walk by.

7. Finally finishing crafting your half-edible salad, and trying to convince yourself it doesn't look TOO bad.

8. When the only open seat is next to somebody who's breathing heavily and singing to themselves.

9. Sitting down and getting ready to dig in to your ... 'lunch.'

10. Powering through the most horrific meal of your life, knowing that the one you have tomorrow will probably be worse.

11. Finishing the last bite and simultaneously wondering why you haven't transferred schools yet.

12. When the best part of the meal comes - leaving the dining hall with an ice cream cone.

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12 Stages Of Going To The Dining Hall, As Told By 'The Office'

"NOOOOOOO!"

1. Walking in, and realizing you're actually paying money for the culinary monstrosities you're about to witness.

2. Trying to be optimistic as you're looking over the delectable choices.

3. Seeing something that looks semi-good, then walking up to it and seeing a fly sitting on it.

4. Finally accepting that nothing else looks edible and you're going to have to eat yet another salad.

5. Making your sad salad and seeing the vegetables floating in their own filth water.

6. When the salad tongs spazz out in your hand and you drop onions all over the floor right as a large group of people walk by.

7. Finally finishing crafting your half-edible salad, and trying to convince yourself it doesn't look TOO bad.

8. When the only open seat is next to somebody who's breathing heavily and singing to themselves.

9. Sitting down and getting ready to dig in to your ... 'lunch.'

10. Powering through the most horrific meal of your life, knowing that the one you have tomorrow will probably be worse.

11. Finishing the last bite and simultaneously wondering why you haven't transferred schools yet.

12. When the best part of the meal comes - leaving the dining hall with an ice cream cone.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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