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"Attention, high school seniors! It's decision time. You've (hopefully) gotten some acceptance letters in the mail, and now you get to choose where to spend the best &lt;del&gt;six&lt;/del&gt; four years of your life. There are so many factors to weigh: Are the dorms \"like palaces\"? Is the dating culture whack? Oh, and let's hope there are esteemed professors with whom you would like to pursue myriad research opportunities and expand your mind. But if you're like us, all important decisions are rooted in Socrates' timeless query: &lt;strong&gt;What's for dinner?&lt;/strong&gt; Let us help you make the most important decision of your life, whether you're a food politico, a locavore, or if you just really, really like ice cream. &lt;p&gt;Some colleges do ice cream socials. At &lt;a href=\"http://www.bowdoin.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Bowdoin&lt;/a&gt; in Brunswick, Maine, there's a full-fledged lobster bake to welcome students back to school. Cost of attendance is \"market price,\" but you can bet it's cheaper than a lobster dinner just about anywhere else. And the rest of the year, the dining hall has freshly squeezed orange juice, homemade muffins, and an egg sandwich so good that the sister of this writer felt the need to live-text the process of eating it during every Sunday brunch.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lots of college students can frequent the late-night food trucks that haunt campus streets. But only Duke students can consult a&lt;a href=\"https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vgkckpl2e04dgvbtn94u1jeuk0@group.calendar.google.com&amp;amp;ctz=America/New_York\" target=\"_blank\"&gt; Google Calendar &lt;/a&gt;to find out when their mobile dinner of choice will roll on by. Find time for pulled pork from &lt;a href=\"http://www.thehumblepig.com/truck-menu--bulk-pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Humble Pig&lt;/a&gt;; fries with feta from &lt;a href=\"http://roaminghunger.com/greek-gussys\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Gussy's&lt;/a&gt; (pictured); cr\u00EApes with homemade lemon curd from &lt;a href=\"http://www.parlezvouscrepe.com/main.htm\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Parlez-Vous Cr\u00EApe&lt;/a&gt;; pork and scallion dumplings from &lt;a href=\"http://www.chirbachirba.com/menu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Chirba Chirba&lt;/a&gt;; stone-ground cheddar grits from &lt;a href=\"http://www.fostersmarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Fosters on the Fly&lt;/a&gt;; Baguetteaboutit's hot Italian sausage on a fresh baked baguette... Hmmm, maybe I will go get that master's, after all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;More and more colleges are incorporating their own farms into student life, but the &lt;a href=\"http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/farmunit/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University &lt;/a&gt;is the one tugging at our pastoral heartstrings. On hundreds of acres abutting a National Forest, the school's research farmland is dedicated to important and fascinating things like wheat pathology, hazelnut harvests, and developing a &lt;a href=\"http://horticulture.oregonstate.edu/content/osu-unveils-new-purple-tomato-%E2%80%98indigo-rose%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;purple tomato&lt;/a&gt;. The place is quite literally flowing with &lt;a href=\"http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/fall-2009/sweet-cream\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;milk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\"http://honeybeelab.oregonstate.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;hone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;\u2014and there's &lt;a href=\"http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/farmunit/woodhall\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;wine&lt;/a&gt;, too.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Maybe you're not majoring in soil sciences, but if you want to combine liberal arts with farming arts, you can get down and dirty on &lt;a href=\"http://web.colby.edu/cofga/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Colby College's 2 Feet 2 Bedrock &lt;/a&gt;student farm in Waterville, Maine\u2014and later that day, eat the same\u00A0kale, corn, blueberries, peaches, basil, tomatoes, and other fruits and veg that you harvested\u00A0when you head to dinner at Colby's dining hall.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://Wesleyan.edu\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Wesleyan&lt;/a&gt; couldn't be crowned most vegan-friendly small college by PETA in 2012 without also spurring student-helmed &lt;a href=\"http://wesleying.org/2012/11/16/wesleyan-crowned-most-vegan-friendly-college-in-u-s/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;conspiracy theories&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\"http://methodmagazine.com/2009/12/04/does-wesleyan-deserve-the-best-vegan-food/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;investigations&lt;/a&gt; into the validity of those claims. Apparently there was &lt;em&gt;bribery&lt;/em&gt;\u00A0involved!? So, if you're vegan and/or dedicated to the pursuit of truth and justice, this just might be the school for you.\u00A0The PETA battle was head-to-head with &lt;a href=\"http://Oberlin.edu\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Oberlin&lt;/a&gt;, but the runner-up is pretty much the same school, anyway.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://ucsd.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;University of California\u2013San Diego&lt;/a&gt; has an all-vegan eatery right on campus, and\u00A0even to this die-hard omnivore, \u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://hdh.ucsd.edu/roots/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Roots&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0looks pretty good. Any student so inclined can feel free to juice away their four years with smoothies and\u00A0\"chiken\" sandwiches, in between taking a surfboard past the library and down to the beach.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If your dietary restrictions hinge on whether something actually costs &lt;em&gt;money&lt;/em&gt;, then enroll in\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://www.warren-wilson.edu/external_index.php\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Warren Wilson&lt;/a&gt;, in Asheville, N.C., which in addition to dining halls and other lame things you have to pay for has a &lt;a href=\"http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~recycle/freestore.php\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;free store&lt;/a&gt;, where you can help yourself to discarded canned foods and all sorts of one-time-trash-now-your-treasures.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And when I say crunchy granola, I mean actual really good granola from the &lt;a href=\"http://providencegranola.com/keithgeoff.html\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Providence Granola Project&lt;/a&gt; that once appeared as part of this alumna's &lt;a href=\"http://www.brownmarketshares.com/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;student-run CSA-style market share&lt;/a&gt;. That, and fresh-baked olive loaves from &lt;a href=\"http://sevenstarsbakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Seven Stars Bakery&lt;/a&gt;, salty feta from &lt;a href=\"http://www.richeeses.com/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Narragansett Creamery&lt;/a&gt;, and Thanksgiving turkey from &lt;a href=\"http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farm.php?farm=214\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Baffoni's Poultry Farm&lt;/a&gt;. And that's not even including the produce. Rhode Island is the little state that can when it comes to local foods, and &lt;a href=\"brown.edu\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Brown&lt;/a&gt; does its part. And while the writer of this story cooked most of her meals on a hot plate in her dorm, rumor has it that local food is\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Food_Services/sustainability/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;used in the dining hall&lt;/a&gt;, as well. Point being, at a school where Frat Row is frequented more for the weekly farmers' market than for those Saturday evening gatherings that vaguely resemble parties, you don't need to look far for really tasty granola.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You don't just eat in the dining hall. You want to\u00A0&lt;em&gt;run\u00A0&lt;/em&gt;the dining hall someday. &lt;a href=\"https://www.grinnell.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Grinnell College&lt;/a&gt; in Iowa has its own &lt;a href=\"http://www.grinnell.edu/about/offices-services/dining/opportunities\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;pre-professional intern program &lt;/a&gt;for students who want to work in university dining management. If institutional dining is where you aspire to be, spend the summer immersed in the cafeteria arts; making lobster strudel with chef &lt;strong&gt;Scott Turley&lt;/strong&gt; is a far cry from microwaving ramen. \u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Students in the Animal Science department at &lt;a href=\"http://www.tamu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Texas A&amp;amp;M &lt;/a&gt;have the opportunity to join the &lt;a href=\"http://saddleandsirloin.tamu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Saddle and Sirloin Club&lt;/a&gt;\u2014like a Princeton Eating Club, only with more meat. Members attend the Cattleman's Ball, trim hams in the annual Ham Trimming contest, and presumably snack on a lot of &lt;a href=\"http://beefjerky.tamu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Texas Aggie brand beef jerky&lt;/a&gt;, made from lean top round in the\u00A0Animal Science 307 lab. That's our kind of science project.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is only one major for the fewer than 400 students who attend the&lt;a href=\"http://www.coa.edu/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"&gt; College of the Atlantic&lt;/a&gt; in Bar Harbor, Maine: Human Ecology. Which means whether you like it or not, you'll be eating apples from the school's own root cellar, digging for oysters off Mount Desert Island, and buying fresh yogurt from a vending machine in a campus caf\u00E9 called the Sea Urchin. But if you're going here, it's probably precisely because you like that kind of thing. (We like that kind of thing, too!)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Why use the dining hall when &lt;a href=\"https://www.fsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;FSU&lt;/a&gt; students can spend Flex Bucks on chicken sammies at Chick-Fil-A? Plus, there's Starbucks, Chili's, Papa John's, Subway, Einstein Bros., and an all-night Denny's, and Waffle House and Gumby's aren't far off. Score.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You come to NYU for the food\u2014for NYU's food, that is. So what if the dining halls are nothing to write home about? This is one of the greatest food cities in the world (we live here; we can say that).\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://www.smorgasburg.com/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Smorgasburg&lt;/a&gt; is your dining hall. Five-for-a-dollar dumplings in Chinatown are your working lunch. And for when your parents are in town, there's &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/navigator/slideshow/restaurants-hotels-shops-new-york-city/?slide=6\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Or maybe you're here for\u00A0Steinhardt's\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/food/bs/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health&lt;/a&gt;, where food politics guru&lt;strong&gt;\u00A0Marion Nestle&lt;/strong&gt;\u00A0has\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Alice Waters&lt;/strong&gt;, Monsanto, and, well, herself, on her\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Marion_Nestle\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;syllabus&lt;/a&gt;. And if all that isn't enough, there's aways the much-sought-after &lt;a href=\"http://www.chick-fil-a.com/nyu\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Chick-Fil-A &lt;/a&gt;tucked in the basement of a University Place dorm.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fulfill the science requirement at &lt;a href=\"harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Harvard&lt;/a&gt; and win the envy of every food-science nerd by enrolling in the university's renowned \"science\" class,\u00A0\"&lt;a href=\"http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,&lt;/a&gt;\" taught by the likes of &lt;strong&gt;David Chang&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Harold McGee&lt;/strong&gt;, and other food-world VIPS\u2014because nothing whets the appetite like a little catalytic conversion (seriously, it's not just for cars).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Every January during winter break, &lt;a href=\"http://agsci.psu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Penn State's College of Agricultural Science&lt;/a&gt; runs a &lt;a href=\"http://www.cvent.com/events/2015-ice-cream-short-course/agenda-fdf51bf98c1948248280cc9f045f1c34.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;short course in ice cream making&lt;/a&gt;, the be-all-end-all in ice cream ed. The seven-day workshop draws aspiring ice cream makers from across the globe who want to learn about milk composition, freezing techniques\u2014basically everything you didn't know you didn't know about frozen desserts. The short course is geared toward professionals, but having an ice cream school on campus definitely means good vibes. The college also has its own creamery, which &lt;a href=\"http://creamery.psu.edu/products/current-flavors\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;sells pints of Alumni Swirl&lt;/a&gt; and various cheeses, both at school and online.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=\"http://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/project/farmers-market/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;farmers' market&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=\"http://www.kcc.hawaii.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Kapi'olani Community College&lt;/a&gt; on Oahu is a veritable tourist destination. It's like any great farmers' market\u2014except here,\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://hfbf.org/markets/markets/kcc-night-market/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;local bounty includes&lt;/a&gt; sea asparagus, papaya, apple bananas, taro chips, coffee, macadamia nuts, and glorious pink salt. Plus, if you're a student, consider the guava-smoked pork and taro mochi worthy supplements to (or, more likely, replacements for) your meal plan. Don't forget to grab a cold-pressed papaya juice before heading out to go diving in an undiscovered natural waterfall or whatever. (No, we're not jealous, not at all...)\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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