TheKillerPenguin

I have to vent.

Today I went out on a ride and did 4K ft of climbing over 30 or so miles. I got back anticipating a huge meal...and when I walked into the dining hall, they were closed! I had to beg my way in to get something to drink...and the only thing they had left to eat was cereal. So now I have to wait until they open tomorrow at 11 IN THE MORNING to eat something.

Turbonium

dude, i hear you.. but i don't stay in rez, but sometimes i stay at school until 10pm in the computer labs, then when it is time to go home, i find my self hungry with the caf closed they close at 3 freaking 30

55/Rad

And to think that someday you'll look back at this period as the best of your life.

55/Rad

jlin453

Ride(or drive) yourself to a 24 hour place. Problem solved.

TheKillerPenguin

No money

jdevi

Still, I'd give my right arm to be back in college. Got Ramen?

jbhowat

I just moved off campus (hurray staying here for the summer = best cycling in the country), but during the year we had a team ride on the weekends (before the racing started) and we would get back STARVING (no lunch, just snacks on the ride) an it would be about 130-215. The halls didn't open until 445. That sucked. Having to budget and buy and make your own food sucks more though at times.

TheKillerPenguin

WOOOHOO!!! Sympathy food rules!

sydney

How about some cheeze with that whine?

TheKillerPenguin

Its edible, so sure. I might even thank ya for it.

AlanS

Yep, youth is wasted on the young.

flyingasics

I FEEL YOU!!!! Terrell dining hall here at auburn closes at 7:30 and even earlier on the weekend. I had no money to go out and buy food. Get some ramen noodles for times like that. I know that they taste like crap, but its better than starving.

my58vw

I am so glad I am done with all of that... but I never lived in the dorms... but I worked 40 hours a week to not...

Hopefully in 4 weeks I will have a job making 50k / year

CPcyclist

So true Rad they don't know how good they have it. Wait til you come home after work and a ride only to find that the kids have eaten all the food and the wife says the kitchen is closed. Note you will be informed that you left a mess in the kitchen no mater how clean you leave it.

Can I be 21 again?

Drayko

I've found getting a low meal plan with extra cash is most efficient for me. Even if I get the full plan I find I'm not using all my meals so I'd rather have the cash. Then with cash (or just a card) you can easily find a late night or 24 hour place, at least in boulder.

sunninho

Got Ramen... How about, Got energy bars?

CPcyclist

How much is a house going to cost you bet you could find a place that payed less elswhere were you could have a bigger house. (Can you tell I have delt with Undergrads/Gradstudents) Even in Wisconsin on part of the state 50K salary will get you a 1000sqft and another 30K salary will get you 2000sqft plus a large lot just something to think about when looking for a job.

jbhowat

Yeah, but especially for cycling: California > Wisconsin

Move to Colorado so I can race cat 5 against you, fool. Wait, we don't have cat 5 here.. Cat 4 then. We can both struggle to stay in the pack!


It seems like there are a couple DOZEN RMCC guys here, yet I have only seen like 2 other collegiate cyclists from ANY OTHER conference. Ah well... We know we're the best conference, so who cares.

AEsco48

Got to get some gallon zip lock bags and a nice jacket

55/Rad

And to think that will land right in the middle class. Pretty good for someone right out of school.

55/Rad

jitteringjr

Sorry Rad, but you are quite a bit out of touch. He lives in SoCal. $50,000 a year isn't jack squat there. My brother in law got a job with Sun Microsystems making a whopping $50,000 a year. Yet he drives an old rusted out car, and lives with his wife in a 800 ft2 one bedroom shack of an apartment in Irvine, California. That is not middle class.

martin_j001

Now that is how college meal plans paid off!!!! I used to justify it by thinking to myself that "If I didn't take (read: stuff into ziploc bag and stuff into jacket) that pizza they just put out, we may get served Sausage Pizza Soup tomorrow!!!" In the end, I was doing everyone a favor....

Crash Dummy

Isn't it sad? I graduated a year ago and I miss it already, poverty and all. Not that I'm making jack squat working in a lab for the government though. Oh well, there's always graduate school. I hear they have MD/PhD programs at a lot of major universities now. I could stay in school and not have a "real" job until i'm 30 or so! Most people say I'd be crazy, but hey, another 6-7 years of not having a real job AND being a doctor twice over... that'd be neat. I'd make people say "doctor" twice before my name when adressing me, just to be pretentious

socalrider

In the words of Artie Lange, whaaaaaaaa, I went riding and had no food..

I think back of those days in college when all I had to worry about was when I was going to squeeze a little more training in.. Those were good days..

flyingasics

I got the biggest meal plan there is and I still ran out by thanksgiving last semester, and spring break this year. I ate 3 meals a day....And it was all you could stuff in.....nothing like eating 5 chicken breasts and all the sides you can get for dinner


edit-Just be glad you aren't like all these old farts here that have to worry about real jobs and wives and stuff..... all it is right now is a few classes and ridin whenever ya feel like it.... Peace@ ! @ @