Dorm/Living Learning Community pros/cons

cybermom
Tue, 23 May 2006 11:54:38 +0000

If you move into a renovated dorm that requires a meal plan…
I agree that the 7 meal plan ($1349 per semester) seems like the best choice even though it would cost $7.13 per cafeteria meal for 119 meals assuming 17 weeks in the semester. You get $500 of flexbucks to spend at the other dining facilities on campus. This would allow flexibility for missing meals and going away on weekends and more variety instead of always eating the same old cafeteria food. All of the dorms say they have kitchens so they could also eat some meals in the dorm too. It seems the TRADING POST sells groceries and I think they take flexbucks.

The two overall less expensive block meal plans
($1279 for 150 block (saves $70) $7.52/meal with $150 flexbucks and $999 for $90 block (saves $350) $10.54/meal and $50 flexbucks) are more expensive per meal with less flexbucks.

The other meal plans seem like you will have a lot of wasted meals or your student will come home extremely overweight. I also agree that many campus organizations will offer free food to entice students to come to events so they really don’t need to overeat in the cafeteria.