<p>Anyone love how people are all deciding to wash their laundry this week like there’s no tomorrow?</p>
<p>sorry I should’ve provided some background…</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Northwestern - NU housing official: Free laundry in dorms through end of week](<a href=“http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/nu-housing-official-free-laundry-in-dorms-through-end-of-week-1.2221917]The”>http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/nu-housing-official-free-laundry-in-dorms-through-end-of-week-1.2221917)</p>
<p>It’s the least they can do, given that they pushed this change through without notice.</p>
<p>The change actually makes things easier since you dont have to find a cash-to-card machine every time you run out of money on the card for laundry (you can just go on the nucuisine site and add to your MunchMoney and pay by card/send the bill to your parents), though I guess it sucks for those who have a lot of money on the card already.</p>
<p>I heard some universities get free laundry though… I believe Rice is one of them? and the tuition is much cheaper there too.</p>
<p>The credit card thing is nice. But it takes days to process. Which is not usually how far ahead I plan doing laundry. I could run out to an ATM, get to a cash-to-card machine (there’s quite a few of them around), and voil</p>
<p>The craze has kind of died down in my dorm, but it was pretty hectic for a while.</p>
<p>Are they changing it back to the way it was? Personally, I liked the old system. It’s not at all a hassle to find cash-to-card machines. In my dorm, there’s a cash-to-card machine right in the laundry room. That’s pretty hard to beat for convenience. Not to mention all the other places on campus that have the machines.</p>
<p>Personally, I use points for food and food only (I think the new system took away from points, not munch money, didn’t it?) Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. The whole points vs. munch money vs. cash stripe thing has always been a bit confusing to me, but the way I understood it was that you can replenish munch money, but not points. You get a set amount of points each quarter depending on your meal plan, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. That’s why I think the new system is a bad idea: if I have a fixed amount of points, and I want to use them for food, but laundry takes away from them, what am I supposed to do?</p>
<p>Like I said, if I’m misunderstanding the points/munch money thing, feel free to correct me.</p>
<p>From what I gather from my friends and coworkers, it looks like they want to eventually do away with CashStripe. It looks like Munch Money is going to become a bit of a misnomer, because it functions more like student accounts at other universities. From experience, UW’s system looks very similar, just without the transaction delays and minimum deposit.</p>
<p>Points != Munch Money. The former is a meal plan thing, the latter is a glorified debit card. You can’t use points to pay for laundry, at least so they tell us. But screw it, you can get $10 rolls of quarters at the bank if you ask.</p>
<p>^ But wasn’t that what they suddenly pulled over on us with the laundry? It was taking from the points that came with the meal plan, not from the money that students had put on their cards.</p>
<p>I think that was what they said they would change it to at the beginning but now they’re switching over to using munch money for laundry.</p>