If you're a college student in Pittsburgh odds are at some point or another you've been here for dessert. I will say, on a college budget you get a lot of good reasonably priced food here. Can it compete with the best of NYC, no of course not but that isn't where you are, is it?
Get a reuben and chase it down with a piece of cheesecake. Go home happy.
Quit whining about how Pittsburgh isn't NYC.