[2041] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daniel e mcanulty)
Sat Jul 8 12:44:29 2006
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:44:42 -0400
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From: daniel e mcanulty <mcanulty@mit.edu>
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i don't have an opinion about the plan, but when i read this article,
this reasoning just struck me utterly ridiculous.
one - if they're necessities, why are students supposed to budget
around them? (the truth is a lot of so called necessities can be
done without, so this is just me being a semantic jerk)
two - how do parents suppose their grown offspring will ever learn to
budget? by never being allowed to make a mistake?
and three - as Jared pointed out, and this may be less the case now
that laverdes and such takes techcash, but when i was a frosh,
thinking it would be useful, i put a thousand dollars of my own money
on my card, i found i wasted so much money getting food that was way
more expensive than necessary because it was all i could buy with the
card that i never did it again. see, that was a mistake, and from my
vantage point now, a really dumb mistake, what was i thinking? but i
leaned from it and never put money on my card again.
dan
At 05:10 AM 7/8/2006, Jessica H Lowell wrote:
>TechCASH program from many parents as well as a concern that students
>might not
>have enough money for food after purchasing books and other necessities
>because
>they do not know how to manage a budget."
>
>I'm genuinely curious; has any current or former student on this list ever run
>out of food money because they spent too much TechCash on non-food? Or known
>anyone who did?
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