Man…

blackraincloud:

Now I’m reminded of how much of college life revolved around getting food.

Idk why people joke about it? “Lol just tell them you’re serving free pizza and they’ll come to anything!”

Cuz we were fucking HUNGRY?!

If you live in the dorms, which MOST have to for the first year at least, you have ZERO means of cooking your own food. And if you don’t have a mini fridge? You’re shit out of luck.

Weekends were Food Panic Mode. Caf hours are restricted, you might have used up your allotted number of meals that week…

So much of how we interacted with each other (at least for the Black kids) was constantly figuring out how we could get food.

Knowing who was working as “swiper” at which caf and when, cuz we could swipe cards upside down or just ignore the “out of meals” message if a manager wasn’t around.

Pooling together cash for pizza.

Fighting the constant fear of getting caught with the absolute NECESSITY of smuggling food from the caf.

Food dominated a LOT of people’s thinking space.

The student-athletes were sometimes our saviors when it came to free food.

The Subway at the student union was staffed by Black ppl and they just stopped charging Black students. They’d pretend to run your card, but you knew they would get you food for free whenever they could.

After a couple years, that subway got an all-new nonblack staff. Those older Black folks working minimum wage lost their jobs for us. If I had a way to thank them I would, but not knowing/speaking to each other was essential to keep the white kids from being suspicious. Shit, those free subs kept me from losing my shit so many times.

They saved lives and I can’t thank them.

College in the US is FUCKED UP!