Furious about food

I'm going into withdrawal. \nNo, I'm not a drug addict. I am a kabob addict. Yesterday I finished all the kabobs my mother made me last time I went home for the weekend. And now I'm going into kabob withdrawal. Oh, what I would do for a kabob. Or for that matter, any form of decent food whatsoever. \nThe Wright food court is tolerable for a couple meals per week. But really, how much pizza/fried chicken/pseudo-Asian food can you eat before the thought of pizza/fried chicken/pseudo-Asian food makes you want to vomit? Aside from that, if you keep eating that stuff, it's only a matter of time before you gain the infamous freshman 15, or 20, or 25.\nThe Residential Programs and Services Web site encourages students to avoid the freshman 15 by minimizing intake of fried and fatty foods. That's quite ironic, considering most of the food available at the food court is fatty. And if it's not fatty, it usually tastes like cardboard. \nTrue, you could eat salad or a deli sandwich. But I simply cannot subsist on leaves and the same subs for my entire academic career. I doubt many other students could either. \nThough everyone who lives in a residence hall can buy a meal plan, freshmen are forced to, and therefore have it the worst. As a poor oppressed freshman, I was required to purchase one of the school's three largest meal plans against my will. I have no desire to eat at the food court, but now I'm guilt-tripped into it because my parents' hard-earned money was poured into obligatory meal points. \nI know the food courts at IU are better than some at other schools, and better than the dining services at universities when our parents were in college. It's obvious RPS has taken a great deal of effort to ensure variety and convenience for students who have a meal plan. \nDespite all of that, the majority of the food is unhealthy, at least compared to what many students might have eaten in their homes. When attempting to eat healthy, we're left with very few options outside of soup and salad. \nI don't mind eating at the food court a few times a week, but forcing students to buy particular meal plans is unfair and slightly totalitarian. What if we just don't want to eat that food?\nHere you go kids, you're in college now. You're adults. You're responsible for your own decisions and the direction of your lives, but there is one thing you have to do. You have to buy meal plan A, B, C or MEGA. \nRPS might argue freshmen have no other dining resources, they're just forcing convenience upon us by making us buy meal plans. Not true. If I didn't have to worry about using my meal points, I could be perfectly content and healthy by eating a combination of food from home, the food court, and various Bloomington restaurants. Most students have decently-sized refrigerators, microwaves, toaster ovens and the fiscal capacity to buy \ngroceries. \nI guess it's a losing battle. Policy is policy. That won't stop me from whining, or coveting a kabob or two.