I never get tired of complaining about the Northeastern dining halls. Every time I walk into Stetson West or Levine Marketplace (aka Stetson East), I feel a hard ball of despair growing in my stomach. No matter how hungry I am, or how long it’s been since I last visited the campus eateries, I am still not pleased with what I find.
The main reason I never go to the dining halls is the hours. Not only are both East and West cafeterias closed hours before I feel like having dinner, sometimes one – or both – isn’t even open at all.
West closes on long weekends and before I leave for longer breaks, quickly halving my options on those days. In itself, this would not be a huge problem if I could stand the food in East: I don’t know about you, but having dry roasted meat, overdone burgers and half-assed Italian-American entr