Dorm/Living Learning Community pros/cons

parent2noles
Tue, 23 May 2006 08:54:30 +0000

I agree with beech - our older daughter did not buy a meal plan and used Garnet Bucks for the first year. Garnet Bucks seem to work well - until the student adapts and finds what they like, like beech did. Then they just need money (wow - who’d ever figure a college student would ever want infusions of cash?? ;^> )

Our younger daughter must buy a plan because she will live in an east-side dorm and now all such residents must buy a plan. I suspect we’ll do what beech suggests, buy a minimal plan and Garnet Bucks. It’s more economical to make most of their own food at home, which is what I suspect most do when eating out gets old.

While I found all the food on campus good, all cafeteria-style food gets old. Have to say, though, the variety they have now is MUCH better than what we had in the 1970s!

An interesting side note - my older daughter suddenly discovered she could be very thrifty when she started spending her own (scholarship) money to live. Now she takes food home for later meals if she cannot eat it all and found a lot of organizations that offer free suppers to students (that’s thrifty!). When she was at home, cost was no object…wonder how that happened?