Freshmen, get used to the hideously long lines at Annenberg because as it turns out, lining up for food, fighting for food and then possibly not getting any (good) food is going to be one of the defining traits of your Harvard career. That, and missing the shuttle.

As a freshman, I was amazed by the madness last year when Chipotle was giving out a free burrito for anyone with a Harvard ID. It was an usual Cambridge day, which means it was raining and freezing cold. But even the Cantabrigian mother nature could not stop the brethren of rain boot-clad, starving undergrads from standing in line for hours to get their burritos. No, really. The wait was 3 hours and the line remained strong until 11p.m.

Barely a week into my sophomore year, the food hurricane seems to already be sweeping across campus (Earl, please take note.) The Science of the Physical Universe class on Science and Cooking - SPU 27: Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science – is rumored to attract close to 1,000 students for a meager number of 300 seats. People were in line an hour before class began. Here I thought Harvard time means seven minutes after the hour, not seventy minutes before. To all of you vying for a chance to taste gourmet food: good luck. I’m just glad I didn’t even bother trying. Given my midget-like stature, I would probably be crushed to death before I even manage to grab a piece of anything edible. That, and the fact that it’s still a science class. Did anyone forget that it is STILL a Harvard-level science class, complete with lab exercises alongside classmates who are more likely to burn your face off and trigger fire alarms than produce anything even remotely resembling food? (I may be speaking from personal experiences.)