Compelling reasons to purchase a student meal plan.

In no particular order:

• You won't need to worry about where your next meal is coming from.
• If you want to eat well, you'll get more variety at the dining hall than you can probably scrape together in your dorm room.
• If you don't want to eat well, it's burgers every night and pizza every day!
• There's almost no better way to get enough fruits and veggies during your undergraduate life.
• There's almost no better way to get enough fried clam strips and chicken patties during your undergraduate life.
• You can make fewer trips to the supermarket.
• You can use the dining hall AS a supermarket.
• You won't need to learn vital cooking skills, delaying any form of entry into the real world for another four years.
• You will need to learn vital spoiled-food spotting skills, saving you valuable food poisoning down time should you become a poor graduate student.
• You can eat a plate of nothing but three pounds of grated cheddar cheese.
• So can your lactose intolerant roommate!
• No one likes scurvy, and dining halls have orange juice.
• Everyone likes pizza, and dining halls have pepperoni.
• It will teach you just how much you appreciate home-cooked meals, making trips home to see your annoying family palatable by virtue of looking forward to real food.
• It will, just maybe, teach you something about making smart food decisions later in life that will save you from eating McDonalds three times a day for two years once you graduate.