[Chaossaber314]

It doesn't urk me so much that tuition in general is going up, but the fact that tuition in general is going up AND they keep doing this bullshit with hidden fees.

For instance, my uni has a policy that everyone has to live on campus for their first two years unless they can prove they're living with a parent or immediate relative.

So you have the initial housing fee. Well when you sign up to live in the dorms you're required to pay for a meal plan. The meal plans range from either all you can sh*t at the dorm cafeteria (I'm not being a smartass. I'm being quite literal in my use of "sh*t"), to our University Center which has things like Chick-Fil-A but you can't exceed $4.50 for a meal. Every meal at the University Center costs well over $4.50 and particularly combos, like one would get for an actual meal. So in addition to the number of meals you pay for you're allocated "Red Bucks". These are somewhat multipurpose in that you can use them in the UC or you can use them in the Mini-Starbucks next door, but god forbid you use them in the bookstore...

Anyway, the point I'm getting at is that in order to eat any food that won't shoot through your digestive track in an hour, you end up milking into your Red Bucks while wasting meals at the same time.

Then they start the increasingly fun business of dictating when you can use your alloted meals that you paid for.

Say I go through the line once and use my meal on $3.00 of food at lunch time. That counts as my meal for the lunch time period. I am unable to go back through the line and use another meal that I skipped (say breakfast or another lunch when I was busy) to get a few sodas or something to bring back to my dorm room.

On top of this, they begin having inconsistent hours. The dorm cafeteria would close constantly. 3 weekends out of 4 it would be inexplicably closed and not open at the alloted times.

The University Center was even worse. Each individual store would close randomly set aside from each other. Some days certain mini-restaurants wouldn't open at all.

...and none of this would be a problem if you weren't required to live on campus. AND this is only the financial burdens associated with living in the dorms. I'm not even getting into the egregious loss of rights you suffer as a result of not owning a place but not technically or legally qualifying as a renter with renter's rights either.




Colleges have a lot to answer for prior to them jacking up their tuition. When they increase tuition additionally to all the other underhanded sh*t they pull, it's completely unacceptable.