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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at High Point chapter.

It’s Fall Break and we all know what that means, whether at home or traveling it’s time to use real money and start paying for our food again. 

I guess that I never realized how much I loved our meal plan until that day I grabbed coffee and a muffin from Starbucks before I ran to my 8:00 AM and then met up with my friends for some Chick-fil-a after classes, before finishing my night off with my recent obsession of getting sushi and fries from the Grille. At the end of the day I realized I had not spent a dollar on food, but you could have tricked my stomach into thinking different. A day of indulging in all of my favorites, there is not much more a girl can ask for in life. Except maybe to not have to swipe her credit card once, of course.

Our meal plan is certainly one thing we tend to take for granted here at High Point. It is easy to forget that while we get to have all of our favorites and then some each week, our friends at other schools may have to pay for their Starbucks or can’t use these amazing things called Magic Meals. I, for one, have learned to love my meal plan while I’ve been at High Point, from those 7 glorious magic meals a week, to the $150 a semester of Monopoly money that I can also spend as needed (which usually means on sick tea from Starbucks), there is not much more I could ask for. Maybe a Chipotle on campus, but for now High Point, I guess you’ve got this basic girl covered pretty well.

Erika Esterline is a freshman at High Point University. Her major is communications, currently with a concentration in journalim and she is also minoring in graphic design. On campus she writes for the school newspaper, the Campus Chronicle, helps with HPU News and is part of the Media Fellows Program. When she's not doing school work you can find her binge watching Netflix with her suitemates or hiding out in the editing suites playing on inDesign.  
Mollie McKinley is currently a rising junior at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, where she studies English Literature with a double minor in communications and women and gender studies. Mollie is a proud sister of Alpha Gamma Delta, a High Point University swimmer, and serves as a campus correspondent for High Point's chapter of Her Campus. She works as a Writing Tutor for HPU's Writing Center, and has a love for dogs, creative writing, poetry, netflix and music. Mollie's biggest aspiration is to work as a humor writer for Buzzfeed, or for any online media, really. Mollie is a strong supporter of gender equality and loving yourself, although it can be hard a majority of the time. Mollie is originially from West Virginia with an endless passion for the outdoors, and really awesome hikes.