Student meal halls are a pretty strange aspect of the university experience; while they're not really a scam, they're obviously designed to take advantage of students' funds suspiciously like one—as if you weren't paying enough already. See, usually, you have to pay a set amount at the start of each semester based on how much you think you'll spend at the student dining hall. Usually, this will come in the form of paying real money onto your student card in exchange for fake credits or some other form of Monopoly money that expires at the end of each semester.
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As with anything, we humans have a tendency to not want to go without, especially when it comes to food, so you always end up overpaying. By the end of each semester, you're usually desperately trying to use your remaining funds, and I have fond memories of wealthier friends spotting meals for everyone on the leftovers of their prepaid meal dime.
This student describes something similar, except their university took things a step further by forcing students to buy meal plans even if they lived off campus. When they ended up with a sizeable number of meals expiring at the end of the semester, they hatched up a plan to get even with the school. What better way to exact revenge than to do something for the less fortunate? That's sort of like being the Robin Hood of karma.
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