I love eating at Pierce Dinning Hall – every day we have the same things to eat. Now don’t get me wrong, some of these things are good and healthy, like pizza, which is a vegetable. If you do not believe me, go ask Congress. Moreover, the pizza went from being sliced π/4 to π/8 at peak times in order to accommodate more customers. However, I really question some of the procedures they have at Pierce. I am not talking about when you ask to get your sandwich cut diagonally, and they don’t cut at a proper π/4 radians. I am talking about getting your food the way you want it. Often they serve chicken nuggets General Tao’s Chicken or some variation. Some of us would rather just eat the chicken, and it confuses me greatly every time I or others write to dining hall asking to simply have chicken nuggets – granted, this does happen, but this is only slightly more often than when we get cinnamon rolls (only during Parents Day). Personally, I believe that everything else 99% (up to 3 standard deviations) of the time is a bad afterthought, a sad excuse for the pierce motto “cutting edge cuisine”. I would be perfectly fine just eating the chicken without sauce, without rice, without the other fluff that comes with it. In fact, it is easier and faster this way. But alas, this was not the innovation university, and we cannot do that.
I sometimes like to think of Pierce as Schrodinger’s Cafeteria in the sense that there exists a state of good food or a state of bad food, and one cannot find out unless one goes there. However this binomial distribution is not exactly uniformly 50/50 but skewed toward bad food. It still baffles me that we pay $3430 for an unlimited meal plan that we are forced to get. I don’t see things getting any better. Perhaps I am better off just getting an omelet because that is the only thing they serve on the weekends at The Passport Station.
Remembering Japanese culture month’s baked potato bar,
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