7 CommentsFile under crazy/bitter SEAS kids making life better for all of us:
Freshman Rajesh Ramakrishnan has created Columbia FoodWorks, a website which hooks up first-years with too many dining points (they expire at the end of the year) with first-years with too few points.
Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch– “although not official [sic.] sanctioned by FoodWorks, the freshmen without points could give some money as a token of appreciation to those with points.”
So far three people have registered their point availability. For the record, the Bwog wouldn’t turn down a guest meal at John Jay (they expire too!).
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@Got Points? This is the idea of how it works:
A freshman with too many points offers to buy upperclassman a meal at JJs, Uris, 212, etc. and the upperclassman then pays the freshman only 75% of the meal in cash. The upperclassman saves money, and the freshman redeems dining points.
@re: oppression how would you forge a magnetic stripe and encode a student’s information on it?
@re: re: oppression you ask a seas kid
@oppression theoretically, as noted by some freshman, you could forge fake ids and distribute those …
@Cody I would sooooo love a few free J-swipes, but the nature of the first year meal is that you can’t double swipe, thus the freshpeople with 100+ extra meals can’t easily give them away.
Columbia is like unprotected sex: happy you got in, sorry you came.
@hungry! Why only first-years? It’s the upperclassmen who are hungry and impoverished.
@damn right! i’ve run out of meals, dining dollars, and flex.