UCSD meal plan: [censored] you

[Colonel Kataffy]

UCSD, huh? pretty hot girls there. I'll take a couple meals of your hands per week if you'd like.

[livenowson]

Not even, compared to SDSU, UCLA, or USC.

[Cubswin]

Sounds like you might need to 'develop' a food allergy or come up with some off the wall dietary requirement.

[Taylor Caby]

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In addition to the meal plan being dumb, my cousin told me that when he was there (7 years ago), if you don't use up all your meal points theres only 1 place you can use them at the end of the quarter to buy overpriced random stuff like lava lamps.

Is this still true vq? and do you know anything about food at Marshall?

Oh one more thing...do they allow George Foreman grills in the dorms? I assume they would but my Dad said they might not for some reason. I'm planning on getting the one from Amazon that El D mentioned in another thread if that matters.

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i don't know if they allow foremans, but you shouldnt have too difficult of a time hiding it even if they dont. just be cool about it and hide it when you arent using it, similar to the way you would hide alcohol or drugs or whatever.

tc

[Taylor Caby]

also whatever you do, don't waste your college days playing poker. i know many people that did or came close to it. you wont regret getting out and meeting people, so get off the cpu the first few weeks of school.

tc

[Colonel Kataffy]

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Not even, compared to SDSU, UCLA, or USC.

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My bad, i thought we were talking about sdsu.

[TheRempel]

Our University Cafeteria let us order pizzas for 'take-out' using our meal plan. At the end of the semester we'd just use up our remaining meals ordering pizzas and gave them to the homeless peeps downtown.

[Bartman387]

Meals plans are the biggest rip-off of college, maybe second after book prices at the official University bookstore.

My freshman year me and a friend figured out we could buy a supersize double quarter pounder w/ cheese meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, monday-sunday and still be paying less than we were charged for our meal plan.

[mikewvp]

The whole point of the UCSD meal card is not to force you to buy UCSD money and spend it at UCSD. Its for parents that are paying for their children's school and food. This way the parents charge up their kid's card, and that kid has to use it on food. You know, instead of drugs, beer, crack, hookers, poker, etc.

[PITTM]

i work for a major university dining hall. i do much of the financial stuff. lemme do a little breakdown here. this is all supposed to be confidential.

students are required to purchase at least 14 meals a week.(ive had people call and complain that this is either FAR TOO MUCH[understandable imo] or FAR TOO LITTLE[which i could not believe]) this averages to 2 meals per day or 3 meals per weekday. i believe the average cost per meal in the plans is somewhere around $6.40. looking at financial sheets, the food cost per patron served is $2.44. i suppose the other costs are administrative costs. i think we turned a very very small profit this year, but there are a ton of other costs, equipment, labor, etc. i imagine the numbers arent too far off. and to make meals for people it seems entirely necessary to have them pay beforehand so that you may properly prepare to make the correct amount of meals.

rj