<p>Which meal plans are you guys having? Is the Resident Block 160 enough to live on? It's the one with 10 meals a week and $350 in dining dollars. I'd figured I'd take this one since I don't eat much, but is it enough?</p>
<p>Are you a freshman? If so, you have to choose either 14 or 19 meals per week. I always got the 14 meal plan since I don’t eat breakfast.</p>
<p>If you are only eating on campus and not in the res halls (basically commuting or living in an apartment on campus) you should just get the dining dollars plan or else you’re paying more than the meal exchanges are worth.</p>
<p>As a professor emeritus at Brown University, I hereby offer my best ‘meal plan’ story</p>
<p>One evening recently at the Brown U Faculty Club, I bumped into the VP for Brown’s Division of Campus Life & Student Services; and over a martini we got to talking about “helicopter parents” – you know, the ones who ‘hover’ over their kid’s lives and never let them grow up</p>
<p>He said this is a fairly recent development and in fact has ‘evolved’ over the past 20 yrs. He used the Meal Plan as just one good example of this … saying :</p>
<p>*In 1990 , I used to get calls that began , "When my daughter picked her meal plan … "</p>
<p>By 2000 , that had turned into “When my daughter & I picked her meal plan”</p>
<p>… and now it’s always " When <em>I</em> picked my daughter’ meal plan " … *</p>
<p>BTW , Brown has some pretty good meal plans , in case you ever get accepted here :</p>
<p>[Brown</a> Dining - Meal Plan Choices and Pricing](<a href=“http://brown.edu/Student_Services/Food_Services/mealplans/index.php]Brown”>http://brown.edu/Student_Services/Food_Services/mealplans/index.php)</p>
<p>And also BTW , the Faculty Club here isn’t all as hoity-toity as it sounds. Parents of enrolled students — who are frequently alumni themselves – can grab a year’s membership there for a single Benjamin …</p>
<p>i’m not a freshmen; i don’t have to choose between the 14 or 19 meals plan. i’m also living in the dorms.</p>
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<li><p>Can you eat in the residence halls with the dining dollars plan? (Although i don’t think $500 would be enough to last a whole semester, I might have to add to it if I decide to choose it)</p></li>
<li><p>if you don’t use your 14 meals in a week, i know they go to waste. but what about the resident blocks? this is in the description for the resident block 160 –> “160 Meals per semester in the Resident Dining Centers or meal exchanges.
(Averages 10 meals per week)”
if you don’t use your 10 meals per week, do they go to waste as well? or is it different from the Any 14 plan in that you get 160 per semester, rather than 14 per week?</p></li>
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<p>With the blocks, you have those meals for the whole semester, so you don’t “lose” any unless you do not use them by the end of the semester.</p>
<p>youcantseeme, my D had that plan last year when she lived on campus and she eats 3x/day. She always ate breakfast in her room anyway so used the meal plan mostly for dinners and weekend brunches. IIRC, she usually used DD for lunch until the last month or so, when she switched to meal exchange to use up her meals. It worked out almost perfectly…I think I added a small amount to her DD account to cover her Jamba Juice habit!</p>
<p>Right now, I have the $500 dining dollars and $500 campus cash plan. If I were to use some of this money and then change my plan to something else, would I be charged for the amount of money I used in any way?</p>