No college ID card for this student...at least for a day
A day without a student ID card? Is it possible? One student at Marietta College in Ohio decided to find out. Two things she quickly learned, as she relates in her article for the college’s newspaper, The Marcolian, is to make sure you have cash for food and a friend to let you back in the dorm.
Food. Shelter. Warmth. These are the common denominators of human comfort, and they have been from the dawn of time. From the first, frenzied showdown between man and mammoth, the attempt to acquire creature comforts has defined the human race to such an extent that today, access to the good things in life is granted by one small piece of plastic: the ID card.
Unfortunately, this is a very small piece of plastic that can easily get lost. Lost cards, unlike broken cards, cost ten dollars to replace, and so students who’d rather not go back to caveman days to get food, shelter, and warmth will often pay the ten dollars almost immediately.
This situation raises the question–is it possible to survive on campus without an ID card? For long enough to find it again? Therefore, I determined to spend one day in just that situation. Read more here. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/rfidnews-4.gif)
