<p>Hello, I will be freshman at rochester this coming fall.
I guess the 150 pass plan is new this year, and I'm not sure if it will get me through the whole semester. The guy I talked to on the phone told me 150 passes comes down to about 9 swipes per week, so just about dinner everyday and lunch every other day, and the rest of my meals would come from declining to spend amount. I like that there is more declining to spend amount, but I wouldn't wanna run out halfway through the semester. Aside from the dining halls, are there a lot of places you can eat at on campus? How expensive are they?</p>
<p>oh, and are there places on campus where I can go grocery shopping? Like if I wanted bagles and fruit for breakfast for most of my week?</p>
<p>I’m wondering this too. My mother is telling me to get an unlimited plan, since the 150 pass provides barely over 1 meal per day, but a lot of current Rochester students seem to liked declining and recommend less passes/more declining.</p>
<p>my mom’s telling me the same thing. But I seriously doubt I’m gonna be having three meals a day in the dining hall(which is what she thinks I should be doing), and I feel like it’ll be a waste of money if I don’t eat there three meals a day with the unlimited pass plan.</p>
<p>Yeah, agreed- mine thinks I’ll starve or something without unlimited, but even now I only eat one actual, sit-down meal per day, and I definitely don’t eat regular meals at the same time every day.
The only problem is the other places on campus- I checked them out, but it seems like a lot of them just offer bagels, pastries, sandwiches, etc. not a whole lot of variety. So I don’t know how much I would eat at those places. Plus, I heard they are expensive, especially the market.</p>
<p>You can get grab n’ go bagels and fresh fruit at both dining halls using a swipe. There’s a bagel bar in both Douglass and Danforth.</p>
<p>BTW, the fruit is local and organic.</p>
<p>Or you can use declining to buy bagels at Connections, Starbucks, or sometimes Pura Vida.</p>
<p>Fruit you can get at Hillside Market or Connections.</p>
<p>Declining is the most expensive use of your board $$. Dining hall meals are a better value since you’re paying full retail cost at the other places on campus.</p>
<p>BTW, did you know that you can use your declining at a number of off-campus sites? The Distillery. Pizza Delivery. Au Bon Pain in the Med Center. Starbucks.</p>
<p>The dining halls have special theme dinners during the each semester. D2 used to talk about the [all you can eat] crab leg night at Douglass.</p>
<p>Limited grocery shopping is available at both Southside Market (de Kiewiet) and Hillside Market (Sue B.) Both accept declining.</p>
<p>There are currently no nearby grocery stores. But you can take the weekend shuttle to Wegman’s at Marketplace Mall.</p>
<p>There’s also a CVS within walking distance of campus which carried limited selection of groceries, but no produce.</p>
<p>WOWM, unless things have changed since I graduated, declining can only be used at on-campus dining facilities. Flex (aka UROS) can be used at off-campus locations, but is separate from the meal plans and requires depositing additional money to your account. Unlike the meal plans, having a Flex account is optional.</p>
<p>You’re right–it’s Flex $$ I was thinking of, not declining.</p>