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[quitthedrama]

I so wish my schools had been set up like that. We had a set number per week, I think mine was 19, they didn't carry over week to week and you could only swipe once per meal. So if you ate early one day during the specific lunch hours, you had to wait until dinner hours started before you could swipe again. I guess it's a good way to prevent people from sharing swipes though.

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My CP's meal plan is the same way. It's awful.

 

[MissCongeniality]

My CP's meal plan is the same way. It's awful.

CP's too. We got her the lowest amount and still she doesn't use them at all. Plus they won't let them take food out of the dining hall either (so no grab a sandwich/apple for later). It is such a waste of $.

 

[Alexx]

CP's too. We got her the lowest amount and still she doesn't use them at all. Plus they won't let them take food out of the dining hall either (so no grab a sandwich/apple for later). It is such a waste of $.

We cant take full food out unless you get a to go container when you first walk in, but you cant eat and then fill that up and leave. We can take one piece of fruit or a piece of dessert out of the cafeteria, but I always shove like four bananas in my backpack. My sister once took an entire pie out in her coat since they couldnt take their back packs in.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

Ours (quite a few years ago) functioned like a debit card. The dining plan monetary amount was loaded on your card. You could eat as often as you wanted, as it was not broken up into meals per day or anything. So it carried from week to week. We could also take stuff back to our rooms (school had a couple different dining halls and some grab/go options.) That was convenient for weekends when the dining halls had odd hours.

It did NOT rollover to the next semester, so whatever you had left you had to spend before the end. This made for some epic "treat your friends" nights during finals if you had left over $.

The downside: If you spent a lot (ex: you treated your friends to ice cream and Quinzos every day), you would run out.

 

[cheerKT]

That's annoying, we complain that ours don't carry over semesters but yours not even carrying over week to week... No thank you! Lol


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When I had a campus meal plan my freshman year (this was 2009, so it might have changed) ours didn't even carry over day to day. You had x number of meals a week and that was it. You could use one during the breakfast hours or lunch hours or dinner hours but that was it. Like you couldn't use one meal swipe at 11am and then another at 1 pm, since those would both be considered lunch. You could use the cash loaded on your card for the second meal during that hour, but not a meal swipe. A lot of times if I ate off campus that meal I would go stock up on some sodas or bottled waters or something and use my meal swipe for it.

I went to the sorority house meal plan after my first semester and until I graduated. Much easier. Just paid a certain amount a semester and showed up during meal times to eat as much as I wanted, lol.

 

[kaylalalaxo]

There's a cat cafe opening in a week in Vancouver, and I'm ridiculously excited to go.

I can't wait for the one in Dallas to open up! The fact that I'll be at school like 15 minutes away will be dangerous [emoji7]


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[Cheer Dad]

There's a cat cafe opening in a week in Vancouver, and I'm ridiculously excited to go.

A what?


**I have seen Susie's Mom and the level of delusion is terrifying**

 

[Eyes On The Prize]

I feel so spoiled. If you stayed on campus at my school, you were required to get the unlimited meal plan. Unlimited meal swipes anytime of the day and $350 dining dollars per semester to spend at the on campus food places (Starbucks, sub shop, coffee, sushi, all vending machines). It seems nice but no one wants unlimited Sodexo food, believe me.

Although if you lived in the on campus apartments (or you had a legitimate diet restriction), you got $1000 dining dollars per semester to use however you wanted, whether it was at the on campus food shops or in the dining hall. That was the best one tbh. I ate sushi and Starbucks everyday my last semester.

Dining dollars carried over from fall to spring but not spring to fall. It was like fake money, you had to spend it or you lost it at the end of the year.

Real life is so hard. I miss not having to cook and having money I HAD to spend. College life is so luxurious.

 

[Alexx]

I feel so spoiled. If you stayed on campus at my school, you were required to get the unlimited meal plan. Unlimited meal swipes anytime of the day and $350 dining dollars per semester to spend at the on campus food places (Starbucks, sub shop, coffee, sushi, all vending machines). It seems nice but no one wants unlimited Sodexo food, believe me.

Although if you lived in the on campus apartments (or you had a legitimate diet restriction), you got $1000 dining dollars per semester to use however you wanted, whether it was at the on campus food shops or in the dining hall. That was the best one tbh. I ate sushi and Starbucks everyday my last semester.

Dining dollars carried over from fall to spring but not spring to fall. It was like fake money, you had to spend it or you lost it at the end of the year.

Real life is so hard. I miss not having to cook and having money I HAD to spend. College life is so luxurious.

Thats kinda how mine works. The plan I get has 180 meals and 275 dining dollars, but our meals are equvilant to 6 dollars, so you could use dining dollars for a meal and it would just take the amount needed depending on where it was, or you could use a meal to get something instead of dining dollars. They also rolled over from fall to spring but not spring to fall so I always buy a bunch in bulk at the end.

 

[blyndreamalum]

I so wish my schools had been set up like that. We had a set number per week, I think mine was 19, they didn't carry over week to week and you could only swipe once per meal. So if you ate early one day during the specific lunch hours, you had to wait until dinner hours started before you could swipe again. I guess it's a good way to prevent people from sharing swipes though.

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That's how mine was, you could get like 15 or 19 and couldn't swipe for others. Hated it. Although I think you only had to wait 15-20 minutes between swipes so sometimes we'd find a way to hand off our cards to friends ( Did this a lot with my friend I cheered with who lived at home) and then they'd come in a little bit later and meet us. Eventually they caught on and sometimes they'd look at the picture.


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[Beans100]

A cafe that has a cat lounge inside! A local animal shelter is supplying the cats, who can be adopted if anyone takes a shine to them.

I'd officially be a crazy cat lady if I went to one. I'm a dog person, but right now I'm so desperate for a pet, I'd definitely take a cat.

Whenever I'm walking down the street and I see a dog who looks like he doesn't have a leash, I get super excited and think that I'd get to rescue the dog and take him home until we find his owner. And then the leash appears and it hits home that he does have an owner and I cry inside.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

Ours (quite a few years ago) functioned like a debit card. The dining plan monetary amount was loaded on your card. You could eat as often as you wanted, as it was not broken up into meals per day or anything. So it carried from week to week. We could also take stuff back to our rooms (school had a couple different dining halls and some grab/go options.) That was convenient for weekends when the dining halls had odd hours.

It did NOT rollover to the next semester, so whatever you had left you had to spend before the end. This made for some epic "treat your friends" nights during finals if you had left over $.

The downside: If you spent a lot (ex: you treated your friends to ice cream and Quinzos every day), you would run out.

This is how my school does it


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[cheernerd5678]

We cant take full food out unless you get a to go container when you first walk in, but you cant eat and then fill that up and leave. We can take one piece of fruit or a piece of dessert out of the cafeteria, but I always shove like four bananas in my backpack. My sister once took an entire pie out in her coat since they couldnt take their back packs in.

Ours is the same way with the to go container, and if you get a to go container they'll sometimes be really obnoxious about what you get - like they won't give you a 3rd slice of pizza or two grilled cheeses. I don't know that we're technically allowed to take food out but when they have carnival cookies I'll take like 6, wrap them in a napkin, stick them in my backpack, and just throw them in a bag once I get to my room. I always grab oranges as well and don't usually put those in my bag and nobody has said anything.

It did NOT rollover to the next semester, so whatever you had left you had to spend before the end. This made for some epic "treat your friends" nights during finals if you had left over $.

This is me (and most freshmen girls) right now and the upperclassmen in my sorority love it.


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[kaylalalaxo]

HOW 'BOUT THEM COWBOYSSSS #dantheman #clutch

 

[CheerBank]

Ours (quite a few years ago) functioned like a debit card. The dining plan monetary amount was loaded on your card. You could eat as often as you wanted, as it was not broken up into meals per day or anything. So it carried from week to week. We could also take stuff back to our rooms (school had a couple different dining halls and some grab/go options.) That was convenient for weekends when the dining halls had odd hours.

It did NOT rollover to the next semester, so whatever you had left you had to spend before the end. This made for some epic "treat your friends" nights during finals if you had left over $.

The downside: If you spent a lot (ex: you treated your friends to ice cream and Quinzos every day), you would run out.

That is more how former-cp's works except it does roll over from fall to spring. Plus they can pay a la carte for items or for the buffet option, and they have takeaway containers as well but you're not supposed to leave with any food not in a container. I've heard of some pretty big spending trips at the campus ice cream place during finals week in the spring!

At her school if you live on campus you have to have a meal plan. Cp is now gluten and dairy free so her choices in the dining halls are pretty limited (she will bring her own packet of gluten-free oatmeal for breakfast and buy a banana) so we moved her to the lowest meal plan she could get. Fortunately her dorm is right downtown so there are plenty of food options, but then she has to pay for them out of pocket.