<p>I'm going to be a freshman at Princeton next year and wanted to know about some random moving in details. Are buying personal printers (to place in your room) or laptop locks necessary? Also, how are the substance free droms at Princeton? I've heard that those particular dorms get pranked often...</p>
<p>Personal printers may be nice but are generally unnecessary (generally each dorm has a printer and students get unlimited printing), the way our standard-issue desks are built make installing laptop locks rather difficult (and so I don’t really know anyone who uses them), and sub-free dorms don’t really get pranked and they don’t really seem to be any diff than regular dorms except for the fact that they and their occupants tend to be quieter (unless you get put in a party suite of like 10 guys that the university made “sub-free” to try and discourage big parties).</p>
<p>That’s good to know. Sorry for asking about all these minor details, but do you know what’s the most popular meal plan for freshman? Unlimited seems like the easist, but some people may reccommend otherwise.</p>
<p>it depends on how often you eat in the dining hall- the unlimited would have been a waste of money for me-- I never ate breakfast.</p>
<p>Yeah I had the unlimited but it was really a waste of money since I like to sleep in. I should’ve gotten the 190 - you might want the 235 if you like your breakfasts.</p>
<p>there are also times when you might want to eat on nassau street, or at icahn cafe, or go over the late meal in frist. To me the flexibility with the cheaper meal plan was much better, I didn’t feel as bad about wasting my parents money if I decided to eat somewhere else for a meal.</p>
<p>The flexibility of moving one of your meal to late meal is wonderful. For all 4 years my son had that (actually Frist Food is tastier than dorm).</p>
<p>I actually moved from one of the other meal plans to unlimited my sophomore year, for the sole reason of late meal. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s great (I’m going to miss it as an upperclassmen next year!). Every weekday from 2-3:30 for lunch, and 8:30-10 for dinner (I’m almost positive those are the hours), you can go to the caf</p>
<p>Good that you explained. Most freshmen don’t know. My son certainly didn’t know.</p>
<p>you might want to check on how much more the unlimited plan costs vs. the 190, and see if it still makes sense. For late meals you generally pay ~$13 for the meal, but only get $6-7 dollars to use. Even with late meals I never used all of my meals (and freshman year, back when you could use a double swipe at late meals, I ate at frist most nights). You can still use your prox for late meals, so it might end up saving you money.</p>
<p>I’m getting an unlimited meal plan next year, so does this mean i can use $6-7 from my unlimited plan at frist as long as i’m there during late meal hours? And if i go over that limit, i’ll just have to pay cash or something?</p>
<p>yeah, each meal time has a late meal value-- so for breakfast you get something like $3, for lunch you get like $5 and for dinner you get like $7 to use at frist. If you go over you can pay onto your student account or onto paw points. I dont think that they will be happy if you pay the extra with cash.</p>
<p>One more thing about meal plans. If you get the unlimited, that plan includes meals during breaks. If you’re not unlimited and on campus for a break (fall break, Christmas, intersession, spring break), you have to either buy a temporary break meal plan (>$100) or scavenge for food for the break.</p>