Dining Flex vs OneCard Expense Account

unccadet08
Wed, 24 May 2006 23:29:47 +0000

first, get flex and expense. If you live in the dorms then you will most likely want to use the laundry machines to clean your clothes and they only taken expense from one cards. So if you live in dorms you have to have money on your expense accounts. Also, the vending machines on campus all take expense (not flex), thats always nice so if you need that drink to keep you awake. I highly recommend at least $100 on your expense account per semester. Flex is nice for getting snacks or food from the student store, circus room,bulls head market, the endzone or bottom of lenior.

I think $500 is way too much and yes you can buy flex money second semester as long as you have a meal plan. Don’t limit your kid to campus food because most likely they will get tired of it and want a break and go to franklin street on weekends. $400 flex tops but they will eventually learn which plan works best for them. Usually underclassmen eat most at the dining halls.

2nd–i have a OneCard plus and i think its basically a waste really. If you show them your wachovia card then they will turn it into a onecard plus then you have to go to a wachovia bank and they will link it to your checking account so it will be just like your check card with the exact same pin number. Seriously I just use my check card because as time goes on your onecard will really wear out. You can tell the upperclassmen from the underclassmen by just looking at the onecards. The upperclassmen are worn, barely readable sometimes and faded pictures because you will swipe that little card so many times, so why put it through a check cards use in addition.