Campus Issue Freewrite #3

The policy I believe most drastically needs to change on the USC campus is the mealplan system. After talking with my friends at other schools, all of varying sizes, I have come to the conclusion our schools mealplan is probably one of the worst in the country. I feel as though it is set up in a way where you have very limited options without going over the set meal price and tapping into your Carolina Cash funds. Personally I know I go over almost every meal. I also do not like how if you do not use a meal, you lose it. Most other schools will give credit back at the end of the semester or year for the meals that go unused. Not so at USC. This makes picking a meal plan difficult because you want to have a sufficient amount of food, but at the same time you don't want to waste meals.

At the same time, USC should keep this policy as is. If students so choose to get more food then the school recommends with the set limit then they should be charged more for it. Likewise, the excess meal plan tickets gain thousands of dollars for the school which could go towards improving meals or towards better food. So it may not necessarily be better to give credit back. That may result in more expensive individual meals.