The choice is yours

TIP: Maintaining a healthy diet and strong mind is important to your success at MIT; remember to budget appropriately for food!

Meals are paid for using a campus debit account or cash. This year students have two debit “declining balance” accounts to choose from, Dining Dollars and TechCASH. We recommend that you fund Dining Dollars and TechCASH accounts and vary your deposit amounts to each depending on your needs.  

If you are an incoming undergraduate student, Dining Dollar and TechCASH accounts have been established in your name and you may fund them at your discretion. You fund and maintain your accounts online by either charging deposits to your student account or to a credit card. Parents can also add funds to your account with a credit card via the MIT Card website  http://techcash.mit.edu. We suggest that you allocate about $20 per day for meals. Over a 15-16 week semester this works out to about $2,150.  

You will find a high degree of flexibility in MIT Campus Dining and will quickly discover the right combination for your life style eating in Campus Dining locations, at local restaurants, and/or cooking for yourself. Where you choose to live, your time constraints and your diet preferences will all weigh on your dining expenditures.

Remember, the most important thing is to fund your Dining Dollars and/or TechCASH account. You can deposit or withdraw funds as you find necessary throughout your academic career at MIT and you can transfer funds between Dining Dollar and TechCASH accounts at no cost.