10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which should I do?"*

*Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is "Thermal Fluids."

8 minutes ago I discovered the answer. MIT subscribes to an AWESOME online food delivery service called CampusFood. Its purpose is to provide a late-night, work-free food experience to desperate tooling college students (you'd better click that "tool" link! Check it, there's an official, MIT-specific definition).

When you get to CampusFood you are faced with two dropdown menus. As an MIT student, your goal is for them to look like this

before clicking "Go."

After you click go you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a handy little filter tool so that you get exactly what you want.

I filtered my restaurants such that they had free delivery and chicken wings. Here were my options:

From experience I know Wings Over Somerville to be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever-important restaurant information screen.

Payment types, hours, address, name, and various other details are listed, with an option to "View Menu & Order."

I "Viewed Menu & Ordered"

The rest of it, well, if you care about it, is easily accessible by you. Feel free to explore and check out the different types of food you can have brought to you when you go to MIT. I ended up ordering my chicken wings and they should be here in about 1/2 an hour.

CampusFood is especially popular when large numbers of people on a floor (5-10) want to make an order because delivery is really small when split between that many people. After your order is finished you have the option of posting "__________ ordered __________ from CampusFood.com" to your Facebook feed. I usually don't do this, I don't really think my friends care what I'm eating for dinner.

Now I have all sorts of time to do homework, worry about bringing up my 2.005 grade, and eat chicken wings at the same time!

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i try to go for Wing It,
every chance possible

Posted by: lulu on October 6, 2008

Wing It is good, but Wings over Somerville sells food by weight, which is always a plus in my book. Also, boneless wings are delish.

Posted by: Snively on October 6, 2008

Do they deliver it right to your room?

Posted by: Ehsan on October 6, 2008

Wait, wait, you got a F.
I would attempt to make fun of you right now, but I have no right to. Considering the fact that I know nothing about thermal fluids.

Also btw, 3rd last paragraph, last line, you wrote "hear" I think it's supposed to be "here".

Posted by: Ehsan on October 6, 2008

i haven't heard back from my EC in a week. should i call them?

Posted by: obamawanabe on October 6, 2008

i haven't heard back from my EC in a week. should i call them?

Posted by: obamawanabe on October 6, 2008

Don't forget CampusFood.com's cousin, Foodler. As well as having a different selection of restaurants, Foodler lets you search the menus of all the currently-open restaurants in your area. Great when you really, really want that mushroom burger.

Posted by: Eric Schmiedl on October 6, 2008

Hey, thanks Snively! That site is sure to be useful...

Posted by: '12 on October 6, 2008

omg, you won't believe this (actually you might because tooling scenarios don't differ that much), but I literally just ordered wings from wings over somerville before reading this.

@Obamawanabe

I'd give them another week, some of them tend to be very important people with busy schedules, if you don't hear back in another week I'd say it's alright to call.

Posted by: Chris '12 on October 6, 2008

Campusfood isn't that good. Foodler is better.

Posted by: 0 on October 6, 2008

It's posts like these that make me kind of scared to apply to MIT.
Of course, I will anyway.

Posted by: Anon on October 7, 2008

Hey btw there's an application on Facebook called "Food Friendzy" where you can win actual money for campusfood.com. I myself got a whole free meal from that lol.

Posted by: Marie '12 on October 7, 2008

@Anon
Don't be afraid. MIT is hard, but totally doable. If you don't fail something from time to time then you aren't taking hard enough classes.

Posted by: Snively on October 7, 2008

I think CampusFood.com should pay you for advertising them.

Posted by: Banerjee on October 7, 2008

But Snively, dear, how do you have time to be blogging, if you already had no time to both eat and tool? Does campusfood.com _create_ time?
(for everyone else: don't try calling him "dear." He hates it. I have that privelege as an upperclassmen on his hall. )

Posted by: Clara '10 on October 7, 2008

Well, simple. He had time to either prepare or eat food. He chose food. Then he had another choice to either blog about it or study. Guess what he did :D

Posted by: brain5ide on October 7, 2008

*incoherent slurs*

Posted by: Sarah Palin on October 7, 2008

Do they have vegan food??

Posted by: Lin² on October 7, 2008

Of topic question...

What type of question do they ask you at the interview?

Please/and Thank You

Posted by: 0 on October 7, 2008

is this /b/ ?

Posted by: 0 on October 7, 2008

zomg I love campusfood. I use it religiously. Even though I'm no longer a student at MIT, it's great because I still live really close to campus. Unfortunately, Wing It doesn't deliver to my place, but I'll have to check out Wings Over Somerville...yum. Another one of my favorite restaurants on there: Spice and Rice. Great Asian (Korean/Japanese) food.

Posted by: Mikey on October 8, 2008

Hey...you guys are having fun without me!!!

Posted by: Barack Obama on October 8, 2008

what is mit like
are the teachers cool
how is the dating world
how are the dorms
is mit really like the website says it is
what is there fun to do on campus

Posted by: taylor on October 8, 2008

Whoa! That's so cool!

How convenient. Can you use this system on a daily basis?

Posted by: June on October 8, 2008

per se, if you were a student who "tooled" on a daily basis..

Posted by: June on October 8, 2008

@June
Yep, no limits.

Posted by: Snively on October 8, 2008

@Taylor
Looking through old blog posts is a good way to start. They're labeled by category, too =).

Posted by: Piper on October 8, 2008

Hm, this is nice to know about. Apparently I won't be living off of noodles in college after all, like the stereotypical college student does.

Darn. I like noodles.

Posted by: Dane on October 8, 2008

"If you don't fail something from time to time then you aren't taking hard enough classes."
I have to quote that. Not that I'm failing anything (yet), but it'll be reassuring words to the guy who was sitting next to me in the exams earlier today.

Heh, the MIT "tool" wikipedia description needs citation.

Posted by: 0 on October 9, 2008

"Heh, the MIT "tool" wikipedia description needs citation."

Our lives are literally the living citation to that.

btw, there hasn't been a new blog post in 3 days! I think it's that time of the year again

Posted by: Oasis '11 on October 9, 2008

The supplemental blog entry by Matt doesn't allow comments anymore, so I would like to post this question here.

I have a teacher who knows me both in class and for a school club. I already have a Science and Humanities teacher writing recs, but I asked this teacher to write one too because she knows me well- 3 years. She wants to fill out an evaluation form like the A and B forms available, with its check boxes and official waiver. Could I give her a copy of one of the forms to submit as an extra rec and have a note inside, saying that this is an additional recommendation?

Posted by: David on October 9, 2008

@David
That should be fine.

Posted by: Snively on October 9, 2008

the internet hates you.

Posted by: dei-ron on October 10, 2008

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