<p>mrsref,</p>
<p>You can just tell them what you want to use to get in (DD vs Passes) at MC and they will charge you appropriately (hopefully) though most people don’t do use anything but passes so who knows how good they are at running that. I have trouble using 50 passes so its not a worry for me. </p>
<p>For dinning dollars, you lose them at, you get very little “discount”, and i would say a dinning dollar has about 60 cents worth of real purchasing power (like if there could be a black market that would be the exchange rate).</p>
<p>If i were to run out of dinning dollars i would immediately switch to eating at cheaper places like qdoba, panera, taiwan cafe, chipotle, subway etc etc etc </p>
<p>This is why i am living in apartment style living and not buying a meal plan next year.</p>
<p>And yeah, thats a perfectly rational way to play the system. The one question to ask yourself is if you really want to eat 50 dinners at MC (i really really really don’t) but otherwise that is PERFECT and what every freshman should do.</p>