I was thinking about this the other day when eating at the new Burger King on campus: how convenient a 24/7 fast food place would have made late night studying and/or shenanigans. So loosely ordered from ‘most wanted’ to ‘not as much wanted, but still nice’, here they are.

10 Things I wish we had (or knew about) on campus when I was a first-year (and is there now):

1) 24/7 Burger King: The 1$ value meal is pretty awesome. It’s not really THAT cheap when you actually thing about it, but the feeling you get when you can order an apple pie or a Whopper Jr. with just $1.08 on hand is pretty satisfying. The microwave heated apple pies of theirs are something that I’ve been somewhat addicted to in the past few weeks. Whopper Jrs. are good for a quick bite after a lecture from 6-9pm right before going climbing. The frozen yogurt, although watery tasting, provides a cold snack for those days when… you are craving a cold snack.. ;P There isn’t too much that is really that great about Burger King’s food, but the convenience of it all is worth it. I would much rather have a Jack in the Box (99cent tacos!), but hey, I’ll take what I can get.

2) A Piano: Ever since I got my piano, I’ve been wasting a lot less time on the internet, or rather the time I used to spend on the internet has been transferred to playing piano. I think that’s a good thing ;]. I recently found out that there is a piano in the library that we can use, and I wish I knew about it when I was still living on campus; however, I seriously doubt that I would’ve gone to use it.

3) Hopkins parking structure: Parking on campus is pretty bad, even with the new parking structure(s)… Hopkins is right next to where I was living though, giving me a higher probability of being able to get a parking spot w/o having to walk across campus.

4) Tapioca Express: It’s not exactly finished yet, but we are soon to have TapEx on campus. I really craved pearl milk tea all the time when I lived on campus, so this would have been really nice. But it’s probably a good thing that it was not readily available to me at the time. Now, I rarely ever have pearl milk tea.

5) Bear Garden, a.k.a. Beer Garden: We have this event where they give out free beer and free food every so often. I wouldn’t have been able to drink the free beer at the time, but free regents pizza is pretty exciting. (I have yet to attend one of these, but I would have been more motivated to go when I was on campus.

6) The new Price Center building: Basically, this is where all the new food stuff is, Burger King, the Sunshine Market, soon to be TapEx, and the Indian food and Greek food places that I haven’t eaten at yet. Well, since BK is open 24 hours, so is this building. There are sofas and tables and computers around to relax or study. It’s a pretty nice place.

7 & 8) CSE and EBUII: The Computer Science and Engineering building and the Engineering Building Unit II are nice places to study when not wanting to be in the library.

9) Combat training room: I really wish I knew about this my first year. It’s a room with heavy bags and speed bags, and no one is ever there.

10) The Giant Stone Bear: Technically this was built the end of my first year. But it is just so darn awesome. Oh, and you can boulder it. ;D