According to students at Cabrini, college is not a place to create big meals and share them with friends.
It is a place where doing homework and sharing laughs is more important.
Students at Cabrini tend to eat at Cav’s Corner. Some order in and other upperclassmen make small meals in their houses or apartments.
Samantha Williams, sophomore American studies major, said that her and her friends might have a small Thanksgiving dinner together before going home this year. Being a freshman last year, she was not able to cook on her own while living in Xavier Hall.
“I guess this year we might cause we have a kitchen now,” Williams said.
After discussing different ideas with her friends, Williams said, “we’re gonna order Chinese food because we think it will be a fun way to bond without having to make our own food.”
Williams and her friends cook food often in the kitchen of house two.
“We like making food, especially easy things like bacon, that we’re making now.” Tim Atalah, sophomore business administrations major, said he does not celebrate Thanksgiving at school before going on break.
Many students at Cabrini dislike the food on campus, but some say that the food they had celebrating Thanksgiving in the cafeteria was worth it.
“It was actually delicious,” Atalah said. “Their food usually sucks but this time it was good.”
Students say they usually focus on schoolwork before leaving for Thanksgiving break. “Nobody I know really cooks so maybe we’d go to the movies,” Vanessa Lawrence-Fulton, sophomore international business major, said. “I think that’s very Thanksgiving- like. I always watch movies with my family so I guess we could go watch Mocking Jay.”
“I’m not cooking, but we could order Boston Market or Campus Corner,” Lawrence- Fulton said. “But I’m not cooking.”
Many students say although they do not celebrate Thanksgiving before break, they are a lot more festive before the Christmas break.
“For Christmas me and [my roommate] Kayla will put a little tree on our door,” Lawrence- Fulton said. “We give each other small presents but that’s it.”
Students say the most important thing during Thanksgiving is just being with their family.
“Thanksgiving means I’m happy to go home with my family,” Lawrence-Fulton said. “Thanksgiving for me is really just family,” Atlah said. “But maybe for Christmas we’ll do something.”
