At orientation, new freshmen cluster around the soft-serve machine like bees around the hive. It can be found at all four DCs on campus: Berkshire, Hampshire, Worcester, and Franklin, and it is one of the most exciting aspects of college life. Sure, there are salad bars, stir-fry stations, deli bars, omelets, international cuisines, and freshly baked desserts, but the soft serve machine is a novelty that brings out the inner child in otherwise mature college students. It is one of the wonders of college dining and a staple of the college student's diet.
Even with a selection of hard ice creams, nothing can compare to the light, creamy taste of soft-serve, in classic flavors such as vanilla, chocolate, and twist, as well as strawberry, coffee, french vanilla, peach, banana, and eggnog. And the fun doesn't stop there! There's a whole bar of toppings to choose from, including fudge sauce, caramel sauce, butterscotch sauce, m&m's, reeses pieces, oreo crumbs, chocolate chips, butterfingers, heath bar, and chocolate and rainbow sprinkles. Ice cream sundaes are the perfect way to finish off any meal. Walk into any DC, any time of day, and you will undoubtedly witness someone eating soft-serve with all the fixin's.
I probably would have thought your dedication to soft serve was unique if my son, who is a freshman at UMass now, didn't go on about it too. (Then again, what I remember most about the cafeteria at my college, so long ago, was the different fruit syrups for the pancakes.)
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