When I got a meal plan my freshman year, I got 15 meals a week.

In my mind, that meant 15 meals whenever I wanted to use them.

So if I want to come once every hour just to get a drink and blow eight meals in one day, I should be allowed to.

In the mind of the cafeteria though, it is one meal, per meal period.

So if you were to eat at 2 p.m., that counts as your dinner.

This was news to me since my school schedule did not let me eat at lunch time.

Even though they do not put the food out for dinner, and the cafeteria considers 2-4 p.m. “snack time” it counts for my dinner for the day?

You can only guess how shocked I was when I returned at 7:30 p.m. after marching and doing homework to find out that I had to use flex instead of one of my 14 remaining meals.

I think the main thing that aggravated me about the policy is it’s not written anywhere.

Even on their website it says, “Each time you eat in your residential restaurant, one meal is subtracted from your weekly meal balance. “

Emphasis on “weekly.”

Nowhere does it say “once per meal period.”

Of course, how updated can that be when on their meal plan terms page, they talk about changes on Arrow which is no longer in use?

So seriously, I think the policy needs to be changed or put up so people know about it.

Preferably changed because by limiting the usage, you are not giving me what I paid for which was 15 meals a week.

Not 15 meals, once per meal period, which in turn kinda makes it more of a four meals a day maximum.

That is what ruffles my feathers.