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[quote=Anonymous]About the meal plan, I would get the 21 meal plan.

The reason is when I went to college, the people that were on flexible plans tended to much more easily developed into a night owl pattern.  They skipped breakfast, were much more likely to eat out, and were late night pizza people.  It was soooo easy to fall in that pattern.  It wasn't the money issue I would be concerned about, it was a less healthy lifestyle.  I knew people that could never wake up early enough for their morning classes.

I was on a 21 meal plan and generally got part of a crew that woke up and tried to eat by 8am or so or felt we were getting ripped off.  Sure, I still went out at night and had the occasional late night fast food and pizza, but there were people that were doing that every night and putting on the weight.  I mean around midnight, kids were ravenous starving, eating garbage around 1am, and then it wasn't easy for them to fall asleep.

I mean it wasn't like the cafeteria food was super healthy either, but the more you ate there, the less hungry you were late at night.  The campuses are just surrounded by predatory late night pizza and fast food places.

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