Kids of EB

[engineergurl]

ours is $2113 per semester but there are 6 options for that money to be distributed depending on your classification. Freshman are required to have the 19 meals a week plan but if you are an on campus senior you can choose to have 10 meals per week and then more cash on your card for the sub shop and book store

 

[matt267 PE]

I miss dinning services. You don't have to plan, cook, or clean. You just show up and eat.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Freshman are required to have the 19 meals a week plan

That's asinine. I have never in my life eaten breakfast more than once a week. Being forced to pay for at least 5 breakfasts a week is stupid.

 

[Supe]

And the meal plan was absolutely absurd, something like $600/mo for the lower tier one.

ummm ... a month? where the heck did you go to school?

I remember it factored out so some breakdown of about 6 or 7 bucks a meal x 3/day x 30 days, but most people only ate 1 or 2 meals there a day. The rest had to be burned at one of the school convenience type stores and didn't carry over past end of the semester.

 

[snickerd3]

we had a flex option where it was just meals, not so many breakfasts lunches dinners, so by the end of the week if I had extra I would go to the lunch carts they had set up and get drinks and snacks for the next week

 

[matt267 PE]

I hate to think about what college will cost when daughter is there.

 

[engineergurl]

Freshman are required to have the 19 meals a week plan

That's asinine. I have never in my life eaten breakfast more than once a week. Being forced to pay for at least 5 breakfasts a week is stupid.

Only for freshman- and it's actually to appeal to the parents so they think joe/jane student is being provided for... the older students have more options with less meals and more flex spending.

 

[knight1fox3]

The rest had to be burned at one of the school convenience type stores and didn't carry over past end of the semester.

I remember this time of the semester quite well. Working at the on-campus pizza joint, near the end of the semester students and usually a group of their friends would come in and order a ton of food to burn whatever meals they had left on their cards. That usually made for a long night.

 

[snickerd3]

The rest had to be burned at one of the school convenience type stores and didn't carry over past end of the semester.

I remember this time of the semester quite well. Working at the on-campus pizza joint, near the end of the semester students and usually a group of their friends would come in and order a ton of food to burn whatever meals they had left on their cards. That usually made for a long night.

Ah that is another place my extra meals got used...there was one dorm kitchen that was turned into a pizza oven after dinner hours...they delivered the pizza, a piece of candy and a 20 oz of pop/soda/juice to the front door of the other dorms. The pizzas were just those $1 totino party pizza sort of things. I think the pizza was available from like 8:30 to midnight.

 

[engineergurl]

we would just go to taco bell and get a ton of tacos for a toga party at the end of the semester...

 

[csb]

Our meal plans were all unlimited meals PLUS extra spending cash for on-campus convenience stores and restaurants. The lowest you could choose while living in the dorms was 15. That worked for the late sleepers and for the kids who went home every weekend.

 

[Supe]

The rest had to be burned at one of the school convenience type stores and didn't carry over past end of the semester.

I remember this time of the semester quite well. Working at the on-campus pizza joint, near the end of the semester students and usually a group of their friends would come in and order a ton of food to burn whatever meals they had left on their cards. That usually made for a long night.

At Ohio State, the on campus restaurant let you call ahead and order a freshly made Reese's peanut butter pie. Needless to say, we spent a lot of money on pie.

 

[matt267 PE]

Reese's peanut butter pie?

I went to the wrong school.

 

[csb]

^ no joke!

 

[Supe]

Reese's peanut butter pie?

I went to the wrong school.

Yep. It was the restaurant run by the culinary students. Upscale, but they did do call ahead/takeout orders. Seriously good stuff.

 

[matt267 PE]

What is the best age difference between siblings?

 

[Ble_PE]

Is there one? Ours are 2 years apart and that has worked out pretty well for us because they are close enough that they still play with the same stuff for the most part. Plus, I think as a parent it would be harder to have a baby after you've been out of the baby stage for a while with an older child. I hear of these parents having a baby with a couple of kids in school already and I couldn't imagine going back to diapers and nighttime feedings again.

 

[Supe]

I think it varies over the years, and can change geographically. Where I grew up, I'd vote for 3 years.

• Close enough age for hand-me-downs without being horribly out of style
• Older sibling is young enough to "want" a little brother/sister and wants to help
• Close enough that they will have similar interests for vacation planning, movies, etc.
• Can attend same elementary and high schools at a minimum. Back in CT, "middle schools" were 7th+8th grade. Elementary got out latest, middle school 1/2 hour earlier, high school 1/2 hour earlier than that. It wasn't just for bus routes - it was to allow the older sibling to escort or be home when the younger sibling got out or arrived.
• Big downside - two sets of hormones coming on strong at the same time.
• Depending on how much you want to offer as a handout, financial burdens come on all at once (cars for kids, college tuition, etc.)

My family was spaced further apart, with 9 years being between my middle sister and I. Never did much as a family, never saw much of my older sister growing up (one of my first memories was walking around the DC area when she was picking a school), and my two sisters were constantly at each others throats.

 

[matt267 PE]

I know it's different for each family situation. It's like asking "which PE exam is easier." With my daughter being 7, we can't go back and have another to close the age gap.

 

[matt267 PE]

Close enough that they will have similar interests for vacation planning, movies, etc.

Never did much as a family, never saw much of my older sister growing up

^ This concerns me.

Are you closer to your older sister now?