How is the Dining Plan ever worth it!?

My husband has a t-shirt.

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It was the best and gratuities were included.

My senior year of high school our Principal implemented the ā€œSenior Honor Codeā€ system.
We could sign ourselves in and out whenever we wanted - based on an honor system. It was genius because it gave us the opportunity to demonstrate what we’d learned about honesty and integrity. I signed myself out early one time to go to a movie with my boyfriend. Felt so guilty I never did it again. :laughing: In general, I never wanted to skip school. It was a fun hangout.

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:joy: I always feel so bad for Cameron.

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We had this as well. It was genious. At least once a week I’d sign out to the village diner where I’d get a chocolate shake and fries. Early lunch. Back at school to hang out in the cafeteria with friends at lunch.

The first 3 years I loaded up my class schedule so much that the last semester I only had about a third classes and two thirds study halls. Everyone else seemed to be trying to catch up. I really didn’t even think of study halls in the early years. :roll_eyes: I could have been spreading them out :smile:

We didn’t have an honor code in high school, but at U of M, the College of Engineering had an honor code. Each time you took a test, you had to write out the honor code and sign it. In exchange, there were no professors in the room while you took tests/exams, for example. (TAs were planted outside the room if you needed help with anything.)

In all four years, I never once observed any cheating in my College of Engineering classes. However, in my non-CoE classes, cheating seemed to be the norm. There was no honor code there.

It is amazing to me how if you raise the bar of expectation, people live up to it. I’m not saying no one ever cheated in the CoE…but it was rare, indeed, compared to the classes that were outside of the CoE.

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I totally subscribe to this. Tried to subvert my professional engineer boss to this in managing his employees.

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I pulled out the records to get the deets on the dining plan I. 2006. As mentioned earlier, this was when dining was paired with recreational activity and all sorts of other stuff. We paid $5500 for eight nights at Poly and the Premium Package. Three meals a day, but could mix and match. Gratuities were included, but an alcoholic drink was not. According to my records, we ā€œspentā€ $1800 on food and recreation. I imagine these days a trip like this would cost a million dollars. :grinning:

Seriously though, is it possible to get eight nights at Poly (not DVC) for $5500 - let alone unlimited recreation and three sit down meals a day? Plus a special view for fireworks, tickets to Cirqure and a photo on the Leave A Legacy wall.


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We used that Disney world planner, too!

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It was the best! I can’t bring myself to throw it away. I purchased another one in 2016, but like everything else, it was a chintzy version.

They make a great souvenir!