Eating Quickly

Lucky you, I still feel like writing posts about food so you get to keep reading them.  Fight on, my brave soldiers.

Anyway, one annoying thing about eating at college is trying to eat quickly.  Imagine, if you will, that you have an 8:00 class and your alarm goes off at 6:30.  Now, you were up until 1:36 last night playing glow-in-the-dark Frisbee with a glow-stick necklace and you do not feel like getting up.  You hit snooze until 7 and then figure you better get up.  The problem is, if you want to eat in the cafeteria, you need to leave your dorm room buy 7:30.  If you are a guy, you might be ok, but if you are a girl, you are screwed.

Eating in the cafeteria is a process that simply takes time.  You are not allowed to take food out of the room and back to your dorm or to your class.  So, you have to walk there, swipe in, stand in line to get food, eat it, stand in line to put your dishes on the conveyor belt, swipe out, and walk back.  The absolute fastest that this process can be accomplished, assuming that you don't have to wait in long lines and get something easy to eat, it 17.23 minutes.

So, if you need to eat fast, you need to do it in your room.  It is always a good idea to have granola bars or microwave oatmeal on hand so that you can scarf something down while you get ready.  There's nothing quite like doing your make-up in the dark whilst chugging down thick, sludgy coffee whilst trying not to wake up your roommate whilst watching the clock tick closer and closer to 8:00.  Then you realize that you forgot to budget time to actually walk to class.  Now you are chugging down coffee whilst swearing violently under your breath.  Now you are choking.

Or you can just adopt the true college breakfast of coffee and a cheese-stick.