<p>And as a freshman were you living in the dorm on a meal plan? Monday, go check with your housing office and ask what measures they have in place to make sure a child is engaging in school as a new freshman. </p>
<p>So, someone in the housing office sees a potential problem with a new freshman, doesn’t tell anyone because parents don’t like that they have a residential staff in the dorms and what to keep that RA staff in the dark about a potential problem with a student and then one day that RA walks into the dorm bathroom to find that child hanging from the ceiling–sounds like a good plan to me.</p>
<p>So, if RA’s are not there to keep tabs on the well being of the students on the dorm floors…what exactly are they there for???</p>
<p>agree menlo…mncollegemom there may be parents on here that would love to have this level of oversight for their kids…they might want to look at it as a college for their kids?</p>
<p>mn, I’ve already addressed that (see post 79). As a freshmen and sophomore, I was required to have a meal plan but RARELY ate in the caf. No one checked on me.</p>
<p>Ewww I’m not sure I would want anyone “monitoring” my kid. The advisor and the kiddo have conversations but not sure I would want someone deciding if the kids were eating enough or “engaging.” Feels creepy. That said, I’m sure there are parents that would value this kind of maintenance. There are parents looking for that kind of surrogate parenting and would probably love this college’s involvement.</p>
<p>I would hope EVERY school would flag a meal card never being used as a check on welfare. There may be a good reason (kid hates the food and has money) but the inquiry should be there, IMHO.</p>
<p>"I’m sure there are parents that would value this kind of maintenance. There are parents looking for that kind of surrogate parenting and would probably love this college’s involvement. " </p>
<p>exactly! so will you help out other parents who may live in your state?</p>
<p>I forgot about those carts! I loved those, too. But I didn’t eat the egg rolls too often, because I lived in Scottish Rite Dorm (we were known as “Spoiled Rotten Daughters”), where the food was excellent. We had sit-down meals every night with waiters to serve us. I knew I had it good, so I lived there all four years.</p>
<p>sit down dinners, egg rolls, and egg/potato tacos… sounds like the place for me LOL… i lived on tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches when i went to college.</p>
<p>S1 used to get bad acid sick stomach his freshman year in the dorm. Meals were heavy and greasy and it bothered him. A full meal plan was mandatory and I paid a fortune for it, but he only ate breakfast/lunch there…every night he made his own dinner either at the outdoor grill at the dorm or in his room. What and how kids eat isn’t really anyone else’s business. I wonder if there is a high rate of anorexia in the female population at this college adn that is why they monitor.</p>
<p>I had a friend who lived there-yes, quite nice! My first year I lived at Jester Dorm where the food was just awful. I actually LOST weight my freshman year. The next year I lived at a really nice all girls dorm on campus, and we had pretty good food there (no waiters alas ), so I had to start watching it a little bit.</p>
<p>Cool that you knew someone at SRD, Nrdsb4! My son lived at Jester last year (he’s since transferred back home). He gained weight, but that was because he was injured and had to stop running.</p>
<p>menloparkmom, the waiters were all male college students, most of them very cute! I know they liked their jobs - they got lots of dates that way. We also had sit-down lunch on Sundays - we had to wear dresses! Even back then (early 80s), that was considered over-the-top. My mom lived there in the late 50s, when the girls’ laundry was even done for them. The dorm was built by the Masons, so you had to have a relative who was a Mason in order to get a room. My grandfather maintained his active status so my mom qualified.</p>
<p>I think now they have sit-down meals only on Sunday. And the Masonic requirement is purely academic - it’s no problem to get an anonymous Mason to sign for you, apparently.</p>
<p>me thinks this state college’s intrusive monitoring of Freshmen student life and eating habits is a figment of one helicopter parents imagination.
But I could be wrong…</p>
), so I had to start watching it a little bit.</p>