Cooking in College

As a junior in college, I was really looking forward to cooking my own meals during senior year. I have never been a big fan of the dining hall; and as a picky eater, living in a house meant the opportunity to cook things I like and want to eat. Throughout the summer before the start of senior year I read through some cook books and thought a bit about what I might be cooking in the upcoming fall semester.

However, in reality cooking was nothing like I thought it would be.

Read on to find out the interesting mistakes and process of learning to cook a college student experiences during their first year of self-sufficiency.


Before I started writing this blog, I wanted to see what else existed in the blogosphere about college cooking. Unfortunately, there's not much. Many of the existing cooking blogs are geared towards cooking on budget or healthy eating, but are not written by current college students. There were only a handful of blogs written by college students about cooking; but these blogs only describe the successes of the writers' cooking. Cooking for me is more of a trial and error process. I hope to illustrate with this blog the process of learning to cook and the successes and failures a college student will encounter.