A few questions about texas a&m,thanks!

m1817
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:34:33 +0000

You know your student better than anyone else. Do you think that they would like to eat cafeteria food day-in and day-out for most of their meals?

It might be okay for the first few weeks or first month but they will tire of it after a while.

Living a Lechner, there will be lots of alternatives within a 5 minute walk at Northgate. There will also be dorm parties, student meetings, and other events on campus where refreshments (pizza, bar-b-que, sandwiches, etc.) will be offered. They will be ordering food delivered to their dorm late at night and going out to eat with friends on weekends. If they have a microwave and refrigerator in their room, they can heat up something there, especially if they want to sleep late in the morning.

They can also buy food with their dining dollars and Aggie bucks at various places around campus. Don’t think of the cafeterias as the only place where your student will be eating.

A lot of parents want to make sure their child does not go hungry but don’t worry about it. If they run low on meals, you can always add more to the meal plan as needed. They will probably have friends whose parents buy too many meals who will let them have some meals off of their meal plans just to use up the meals.

You would probably be better off using the money that you save by buying a 105 meal/$200 dining dollar plan and using it for Aggie bucks so they can eat elsewhere.

BTW, one of the hazards of buying too many meals is that students eat meals when they might not be very hungry just because they have meals left on their meal plan. That’s a contributing factor to the freshman 15’s.

By the end of the semester, the cafeteria will become the place of last resort for food rather the primary place to eat.