<p>If you plan to be gone some weekends or eat off campus then the block plan allows you to eat less on some weeks and to eat more others. So it allows you to carry over unused meals more then what the 7 meals per week does.</p>
<p>hm. i guess if people aren't worried about spending money, then it's a good plan for them.</p>
<p>personally, i don't want to have to use my personal money at all (except for groceries, obviously).</p>
<p>There's more than 113 days in the semester. Count up the number of weeks x 7 days each week.</p>
<p>i went to the academic calendar to see when the thanksgiving and winter breaks would begin and end. if you don't count those days, the semester comes out to 115 days.</p>
<p>you can't just count up the number of weeks and multiply by seven.</p>
<p>hmm... well like you said the block plan would give you 37 extra meals. let's say a meal costs $7. that's 37 x 7 = $259. So, you're getting $259 worth of meals which is $59 to your advantage if you account for the $200 flexbucks more that you're getting in the weekly meal plan. I think?</p>
<p>Another reason why someone might buy a block plan is because the food sucks and so the lowest amount of meals in a plan is the Block 100 plan. So you can fulfill the mandatory meal plan membership but also be able to eat elsewhere more often. it is also the least expensive plan.</p>
<p>Ya, you're right. It is ~115 days depending whether you go home or not. I didn't actually bother to waste time calculating the exact number of days but now that I have that seems right. You could multiply weeks by 7 to save time and you would obviously subtract days off that you might go home on. I thought that would be common sense so I didn't post that part.</p>