Go Beyond the College Meal Plan and Save Money - If You Don't Have Money - Be a Good Serf

The meal plan is necessary for some students, as a way of networking with other students about how to do things, where to do things, and people do like to eat.

I was reading an article in a college newspaper that decried the declining balance meal plan, whereby students are charged a specific per-meal price for food.

$1500 per semester should be enough to cover your food needs for the semester, that's four or five months at $300 per month, or $75 per week. If it isn't, try getting a hot plate or a plug-in water heater, deal with it, don't go broke if you can avoid it.

Realizing that critic jobs are overstaffed on-line, I am making this suggestion:

Visit my website, which reveals my vast dearth of experience as a web designer, and my unwillingness to expose myself to yet another round of potential neurological damage in order to update the thing. There's a list of toll-free phone numbers (some of which are disconnected) for consumers to call, such as food manufacturers regarding your honest opinions of the food that you eat, preferably from a pay phone, so that you don't get cell phone repair bills. You'll more than likely receive enough coupons for discounts on products or free products that you can go to the grocery store and get a week's worth of your favorite snack foods for $20. This will help you when it comes to your meal plan bills.

Excuse me for suggesting that you could try to go to the grocery store, the food market, the supermarket, or even the local SHARE office in order to get food, in exchange for $15 and some work. If you are really strapped, the United Way office near you might be amiable enough to you to give you a custom solution that suits your situation, or at least refer you to local opportunities, or give you options for stipend work.

If you are part of a college media group, write for the student newspaper, work for the television station, index the campus journals, or carefully clean and shelve audio recording media for the college radio station; consider that you can share food with your entire group in exchange for advertising.

Also, if you are networking with your peers of the current student body, why aren't you discussing ways of getting that "fourth meal" wholesale, just like the businesses on your college campus do? I'm hinting that you and your college buddies could all pitch in and start a Limited Liability Corporation, that you could all work at together, and benefit from, whether it succeeds or fails. If you're stuck getting a sole proprietorship, why are you even bothering with a meal plan?

Sure, it's better to have cash in your pocket, however, how many opportunities for chasing around after greenbacks are you going to have as a student? If improving your economy means making wise choices, then, it is up to you to do the research and decide what is best for you, maybe by taking a look around, and seeing what opportunities are out there for you, sometime when the area is not busy, such as on the weekend, when there are fewer people around who might be competing with you for resources.

If you actually talk to the food store managers, and look at the price menus, you might be able to find less expensive options, if not be able to gather yourself a report for business opportunities. Be sure to dress for success when you do, as this is your time for your business, whether you are in it with a peer network, or going it on your own - a lot of being professional is looking professional.

Then, there is something called mystery shopping, which is best done by people with some empathy for the staff who are being evaluated, people like college students, who might still care about people who are stuck in minimum wage jobs.

http://www.volition.com

Everyone knows that it is easier to get cash when you have cash, or a wealth of something. If you write for Associated Content, there's your bus fare to go and visit the supermarket, the food library, the provisions warehouse, or, whatever you might call it.