UF also offers parking lots with a garage and an extensive bus system. And FIU has a huge parking garage, not to mention several lots filled with spots for the majority commuters at the school. Laura Lee Shields is a junior majoring in advertising. Meal plans unhealthy, wasteful for freshmen I suppose USF officials assume that freshmen, potentially leaving home for the first time, are not bright enough to remember to eat. So, in order to provide these weak new college students with nourishment, USF offers a variety of overpriced meal plans to choose from.
Parents pay a large sum of money so their kids can eat the allegedly gourmet food the campus offers.
The cuisine offered in these dining facilities is extremely far from being gourmet. Countless students must wonder where their money has gone. A cheaper alternative to these meal plans would be for students to invest in a small refrigerator and microwave. Kitchens are accessible to all students who live on campus so if students want to bake or fry something on occasion, then this is an option open to them. In other words, the demand for freshmen students living on campus to purchase a meal plan is an absurd and unhealthy waste of money.