Swipes Before Start of Quarter

phospholipase
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:10:50 +0000

If you swipe your BruinCard before 10/2, you will use meal plan swipes (You can check out how many swipes you have left by peering over at the “cash register” display. It will show a number and that’s what you have left. You can also ask when you swipe how many you have left).

Premier meal plans have all their swipes allocated at the start of the quarter. For example, you probably start off with something in the 200 range of swipes in September. Each meal will deduct from this number, so you do not have to count how many swipes are left for the week. You just have a huge number that will get smaller as the quarter progresses. The regular (non-Premier) meal plans have a certain number of swipes per week (for example, use 14 swipes each week, or lose them at the end of the week).

Students get a certain number of free swipes for family during the move-in weekend. I forgot what the specifics are, but it’s something like 3 additional swipes for parents and a sibling during the weekend. You can ask, but with 19 Premier, keeping track of your swipes shouldn’t be an issue. Usually it’s finding a way to use them all up by the end of the quarter (e.g. swiping friends with less generous meal plans, having pizza parties from De Neve Late Nite for your dorm floor). The reality of being a student is that you probably will not have the time or energy to go back to the dorms for each and every meal. Therefore you might end up buying something on-campus in a restaurant. You can also factor in eating off-campus. So have 19P is usually in excess.