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Baylor's Dinning Halls Qualities Explained Through TV/Movies

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A Dining Hall Guide
Simply Frugalynne

Going into Baylor with the knowledge that I had an unlimited 7-day meal plan terrified me. I knew that freshman fifteen will be quickly change from a joke to my reality if I wasn't careful. Ironically enough I've lost 5 pounds thanks to the copious amounts of walking in blazing heat I experience on a daily basis, along with a weight scale my grandma threw into a care package.

It's weird my eating habits in college are anything but routine. On Monday I could have two lunches but on Tuesday I won't eat for 6 hours but I'll figure out. Baylor's lovely campus has four dinning hall experiences: Penland Crossroads, 1845 at Memorial, East Village, and Brooks.

People often ask me about my thoughts on each dining hall and I thought that I should describe each experience by television shows.

Penland Crossings: Jersey Shore

Gym. Tan. Laundry = Wing Wednesday. Penland is easily the lowest quality food on campus but you have to remain loyal to them. Like Jersey Shore it's available late night and it's filled with guilty pleasures that you aren't the most proud of in the morning.


1845 at Memorial: Spongebob Sqaurepants

COOKIES. MS MEI'S COOKIES are located in Memorial dining hall and they are worth all the hype. They're the best cookies I ever had in my life. Memorial also has delicious custom-made flying saucers that start to prepare for the inevitable 5 cookies you will have later. Like Spongebob's grandma, these cookies are made with love and are always of abundance.


East Village: Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl takes place on the Upper East Side of Manhattan while East Village lies on the Upper East Side of Baylor and the steps leading into the dining hall parallel the MET steps perfectly. Coincidence? I think not. East Village is the ultimate plug for custom-made pasta, self-serve ice cream, fresh fruit, Texas toast based grilled cheese and most importantly the best past and current R&B/rap tunes are played around dinner time. Nothing's better than eating grilled cheese while listening to "We Belong Together."


Brooks: Harry Potter

Confession: I've never eaten at Brooks Dining Hall. It has hours that don't work for my schedule and it's in a confusing area of campus. From friends and Snapchat I've heard that the dining hall has striking similarities to the dining hall at Hogwarts. I've heard that they're fresh fruit bar and "Brookies" (ice cream on top of a cookies) are great.


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