Differences+in+Tone

Using tone

To Matt (a friend somewhere else)

Dude. Bro. Remember the talk we had about having Taco Bell on my meal plan? And remember how I hyped up how awesome it would be to have as much Taco Bell whenever I wanted? Well I have a confession. . . My meal plan makes my utopia fall to pieces. First of all, it is really far from my dorm, and is rarely worth going to for lunch. Second, and worst of all, if I go, it has to be before eight. Screw that! Hell, I eat // lunch // at eight. This meal plan has ruined me man. . . The twenty-one meal plan accident does not work out in my favor at all. There are 3 time frames for meals and you can only swipe your card once in that time frame. And you know I sleep in, so this is not very Keegbro friendly here at all. There is no such thing as fourth meal here, which means I have to stock up on food as much as possible, but I can’t because I refuse to wake up before 10:25 to get breakfast. That’s fifteen less minutes of sleep.

To person in authority (meal plan person?)

Dear (person in charge),

When selecting a meal plan, I had worked out a deal with my mom. The higher the meal plan, the less money she would send my way for smaller things. I decided to take the 14 meal plan because I knew that I would have a lunch and dinner every day, and I knew I would not eat breakfast very often. I am writing this letter to address two points: I feel that as a freshman, it is never brought to our attention how the meal plan actually works, and I also feel like the time frames should be reconsidered. When I turned in my meal plan with my housing information, I recall checking the 14-meal plan, however the office said I never checked off a meal plan, and by default I was given 21 meals. I understand this is your policy, but I feel like the meal plan is not very student friendly. When I ask myself why you don’t give us a certain amount to spend throughout an entire day (as opposed to breaking it down into time frames), my only conclusion is that Ball State is trying to scam us out of as much money as possible.