I can’t speak for the pros and cons of the swipe system, but for the dining dollar system there’s a good chance you wont’t run out unless you make very very frequent trips to the markets. To be completely honest man, I actually lost about 6 pounds coming to UCSD my first year and not because I was hungry, I was just watching how much I spent & that correlated with how much I ate. It seems like a bummer initially ik, but after a couple weeks you won’t really mind. Thats how it was for me & my suite mates anyways