Here at Herkimer County Community College, the students are required to have a meal plan. When applying for school and paying your bill, you had a total of three meal plans to choose from.
The first plan offers a total of twelve meals per week and costs $1,175 per semester. The second offers ten meals per week at the cost of $1,040 a semester. And the last choice offers five meals per week at $550 a semester. You would think that since the college requires all students to have a meal plan, that the cafeteria would be open on the weekends and have hours that accommodate with students schedules, correct? Sadly, you are quite mistaken.
Herkimer County Community College’s cafeteria is only open five days out of the week at certain hours of the day. It is open for breakfast from 8:00 am to 10:00 am, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm for lunch and takes a three hour break for dinner, then reopens at 5:00 pm and closes at 7:00 pm. Although some students may say that these hours are easy to work around their schedules, others disagree.
“I think the hours are stupid,” says HCCC student, Alyssa Metzler. “We’re paying so much money for a meal plan, but the hours aren’t convenient at all. I chose the meal plan that allows me ten meals per week and that wasn’t cheap. I think that it should be open on the weekends. I shouldn’t have to go out and spend a ton of money so I can make dinner on the weekends when I could easily go to the cafeteria and have food already made for me. Especially since I’m paying over $1,000 for the meal plan.”
No matter how you look at the meal plan and cafeteria, not everyone is going to be happy. But, perhaps the college could do more to help give the students what they are paying for. More flexible hours and having the cafeteria open on the weekends, for example, could possibly make the students feel like they are not wasting their money by paying for a meal plan that does not accommodate them.
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