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Universities usually have a dining hall that's open 7 days a week. Students that live on campus will eat there for the majority of their meals because dorms usually don't have much in the way of food storage or prep areas beyond a mini fridge and microwave. Off campus students have more options.

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Dorms in the UK usually have a decent kitchen. Mine was like this [1] (the adjacent building to the one pictured), which is nicer than the houses affordable to students in London.

Only one dorm offered cooked evening meals, and then only Monday-Friday. It was a fair bit more expensive to take this dorm.

In any case, most universities only offer dorms for the first year.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploade...

That may be the case in the US and/or other countries. Most of the accommodation in the UK is self catering however, private rooms with a shared kitchen between 5-10 people.

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