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sell some weed on the side ... or get a PT job delivering Pizza and do both :D

I was going to suggest selling crack, but that will work.

Speaking of which, work, work, work. I had a job all though school. Financial aid took care of everything else.

You could also try finding a rich girlfriend, but the chances of that happening are much lower.
 
I was going to suggest selling crack, but that will work.

Speaking of which, work, work, work. I had a job all though school. Financial aid took care of everything else.

You could also try finding a rich girlfriend, but the chances of that happening are much lower.

How about sugar daddy? Will my chances be better then?
 
1) get scholarships (I know this requires some forethought in High School)
2) get a job
3) you don't need everything a working "adult" has while you're in college. I'm not that old but I had no cell phone in college, no laptop, basic cable/internet ($15 a month after split with two roommates), we didn't even run the air condition unless it got completely unbearable, 12 year old car with 188k miles on it, parked it in remote parking and only took it out to drive the 200 miles home.
 
Student loans, bursaries from the uni and a couple of part-time jobs gets me by. Also not having a car and taking the bus everywhere.
 
1) get scholarships (I know this requires some forethought in High School)
2) get a job
3) you don't need everything a working "adult" has while you're in college. I'm not that old but I had no cell phone in college, no laptop, basic cable/internet ($15 a month after split with two roommates), we didn't even run the air condition unless it got completely unbearable, 12 year old car with 188k miles on it, parked it in remote parking and only took it out to drive the 200 miles home.

That's very austere, considering some of the Silver Spoon babies present, or those that mortgage the first 10 years of their working-life.

You are well situated to really appreciate things, when you finally acquire them by dint of your own effort. :cool:
 
I mooch off my girlfriend.

Well, not entirely though it makes things a lot easier splitting things with her.
 
By not spending your time in online forums and making money instead.
Betting on card games, domninoes and pro-sports.
 
Didn't have a car. - Walked.
Didn't have cell phone. - Used phone card at pay-phone.
Used campus cafeteria. - Prepaid cafeteria plan.
Worked a part time job.

Took classes in summer when credit hours were cheaper.
Worked extra hours in the summer at Part time work.

Used School books. No personal computer, university computer lab.
No new clothes unless they were Christmas/Birthday gifts.

Car-pooled to hometown. Paid driver for share of gas.

Very frugal time in life.

Accounting class told me the facts. I was a total liability with no assets.
So I had to limit the money drain.

I ate leftover promotional food for 2 months straight.
Frito-Lays was pushing Smart Food, I think it is packaged white popcorn with cheese.
Ate that stuff Morning, Noon, and Night. Was a big box. Kind of cringe when I see those bags in vending machines.
 
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My parents paid for everything except my entertainment expenses.

I worked during the summer to accumulate spending money.
 
How about sugar daddy? Will my chances be better then?

Maybe I should have said "wealthy person who will buy you stuff". I think that covers all bases. :)
1) get scholarships (I know this requires some forethought in High School)
2) get a job
3) you don't need everything a working "adult" has while you're in college. I'm not that old but I had no cell phone in college, no laptop, basic cable/internet ($15 a month after split with two roommates), we didn't even run the air condition unless it got completely unbearable, 12 year old car with 188k miles on it, parked it in remote parking and only took it out to drive the 200 miles home.

Good stuff there. I had a small scholarship, a job, and financial aid. I didn't have a car my first year, which was a pain in a small college town with no public transit and no food service in the dorms. I later inherited a truck with 150k miles that I drove for a couple of years until it was attacked and killed by a suicidal deer. Oddly enough, it later was cheaper for me to live off campus than on.
 
That's very austere, considering some of the Silver Spoon babies present, or those that mortgage the first 10 years of their working-life.

You are well situated to really appreciate things, when you finally acquire them by dint of your own effort. :cool:

Yep. You can't turn back the clock and if you were immature in HS and didn't care about grades and can't get a scholarship. But I think the "standard of living" has gotten way out of hand. My parents were poor, that probably helped. I can't imagine trying to make it through college if I were expecting the lifestyle I see a lot of teenagers with these days. My $29 cell phone plan when I graduated was fine, but good luck trying to take over a $100 iPhone bill with a $9 an hour part time job while still IN COLLEGE... but in most of those cases I see mommy and daddy footing the bill, further delaying reality for those kids. Do I sound like a total curmudgeon yet? I'm only 33 :(
 
For me my first degree. Parents covered tuition, fees, books, housing, things like insurance plus they gave me a little spending money. The rest came from savings I had built up while in HS and Jr College by the end I had drained all the money I had in savings.

For degree number 2.
I live at home, parents pay for food, and insurance cell phone. Gas tuition and books and anything I buy has been coming out of my savings. I started with around 15k. I have 1 year to go and I have around 3k left in the bank. Now for my last year I have some grants and scholarships since finally my FASFA got low enough go get aid and I was not saddled with a fair amount of income (first year had 52k so no go there year 2 have over 20k so again no go last year negative 2k+ so it helped)

With the grants and scholarships that pretty much is causing me to break even for on tuition and books for my last year. At the rate I am burning my cash reserves I will be pretty much out of money come graduation.
 
Having to pay for food.

Having to pay for Car insurance / plates.

Having to pay for a cell phone.

Other expenses.

You learn what a need actually is.

You don't need a cell phone, you want one. If there's public transport, you don't need a car. Past what actually are needs, you decided which of your wants is most important to you and start there. When you run out of money, you stop wanting, or start working more.
 
Things I have done when I was in need of money...

Prepaid phones (well you need a phone, some are cheaper then land lines), lived in a car (until I had enough for a deposit on small apartment), worked at Labor Ready, sold plasma, and delivered pizza at night. Everyone started somewhere... I still talk to my parents, but that does no mean they are there for me (Anti-gay).

I did all this when they told me to leave two years ago. Funny because even when they told me to leave, I had pretty close to $5,000 invested in Ford. I never pulled my shares out until recently. But I sucked it up until I had enough to move into a one bedroom apartment for $500 a month, that included power/water. Then I saved up enough money to start my own company. That company is doing alright; not great, but pays the bills. Now that I have my GED and some money saved up. Now I will go to college.

Do what you need, not what you want. Plenty of time to attain what you want.
 
As an incoming freshman this coming year I've made a rather intricate budget (although I don't have that many expenses), but here's a quick rundown:

School- Self, Student Loans, Scholarship, minor help from parents
Cell Phone- Parents (only $40/month)
Car- Paid for (by myself), and my insurance is covered by my parents ($110 a month)
Necessities (food, toiletries, etc.)- Paid for by myself (I work on the weekends), and in my budget for everything that I will need to eat/clean/use for an entire month will only cost me about $70 after tax (which is less than 3 hours of work for me).
Gas- My car gets 30/mpg and a full tank is only $45 (at current price of $3.60/gal), so I'll probably need gas twice a month (assuming I go home, which is 170 miles away, at least once).

That's all that there is to it- get a source of income, spend wisely, and shop for things effectively.
 
You learn what a need actually is.

You don't need a cell phone, you want one. If there's public transport, you don't need a car. Past what actually are needs, you decided which of your wants is most important to you and start there. When you run out of money, you stop wanting, or start working more.

Actually, I have read that many schools are eliminating phones in rooms on campus, so a cell phone may actually be a need if you want to stay in contact. Granted, the latest smart phone with a data plan isn't needed, but the phone itself may be.

Someone mentioned selling plasma, which is a good idea. I had a friend who did that and made some nice extra money. Plus, it's a cheap drunk. :)
 
Yep. You can't turn back the clock and if you were immature in HS and didn't care about grades and can't get a scholarship. But I think the "standard of living" has gotten way out of hand. My parents were poor, that probably helped. I can't imagine trying to make it through college if I were expecting the lifestyle I see a lot of teenagers with these days. My $29 cell phone plan when I graduated was fine, but good luck trying to take over a $100 iPhone bill with a $9 an hour part time job while still IN COLLEGE... but in most of those cases I see mommy and daddy footing the bill, further delaying reality for those kids. Do I sound like a total curmudgeon yet? I'm only 33 :(

It depends how it is done. I know when I first went off to school I did not have the maturity to handle stuff like that and it helped that I had parents that could support me. Now how things worked out my parents were a great help in me moving into the real world handling all the expenses myself.

It started out the first 3 years I lived on campus so they covered all those bills + gave me like $100-150 a month of extra cash that had to cover everything else and of that I know most of it ended up going to food and water and I ate a lot so by the end of every semester I was bumming off of females who had dinning bucks to burn.

Last 1.5 years I lived off campus and I will say that helped out a lot having my parents give me a monthly budget were I hand to handle bills like food and rent. Now I still had them as a safety net but still it was a great help having that transitions of being some what on my own but not completely.
Got out of school was pretty much on my own. I know with out the slower transfer to handling things and managing bills I would of been screwed when I got completely out on my own. It also taught me a lot because I had to scrape to get by my last semester.

It all depends out it is done but most people fresh out of high school I would say are not mature enough to handle bills and covering all those cost and do need mom and dad support.
 
but in most of those cases I see mommy and daddy footing the bill, further delaying reality for those kids. Do I sound like a total curmudgeon yet? I'm only 33 :(

I see nothing wrong with "mommy and daddy footing the bill" for their child's education, as long as that child is well-grounded and doing what they are supposed to do: learn. If they are getting a free ride and just partying every night and never getting anywhere...then I agree it's not beneficial.

I am very fortunate and always thankful that my parents paid for tuition, books/supplies, room/board, and most expenses. The plus side to this was that in the mid 90's, my college was cheap as hell, especially since I got resident status my second year. I think I calculated that my entire four years of college, including tuition and almost all expenses, was less than one year of my sister's tuition at her fancy school.

I didn't have a cell phone or a laptop (mid 90s), just a discontinued Mac LCII we bought for dirt cheap. I don't know what my freshman dorm cost, but when I moved to an apartment, my rent was only $180-$280 a month for my own place two blocks from campus and I think most of the utilities were included. Other stuff was dirt cheap. I had a used car that I bought in high school, but I didn't have to drive very much as I never lived further than half a mile from campus.

My parents decided it was more beneficial for me to work towards gaining experience in my field (theater/production) rather than having to work delivering pizza for next to nothing. I did work for the student activities council doing all their sound and lighting production, for which I was paid a small amount. I used this for my living expenses outside of the base (I paid to get a larger apt, for all my "activities", etc). But the amount of experience I got doing that far outweighed any job I could have gotten in that town.

I can't imagine having to pay for school by yourself these days. It is SO much more expensive than when I went, and there are so many more "requirements" (like laptops, cell phones, internet, etc). From what I can find online, four years of tuition at Auburn from '93-'97 was $12,555 total (about $18,500 in today's dollars). Four years now would cost almost $50,000...and that's for a base undergraduate degree. That is a MASSIVE increase, yet not nearly as expensive as many other schools (my sister's school is now over $32k a year).

Yet, I turned out pretty good...employed in my field the day I left school and haven't been a penny in debt since (except for the house, which most people don't count).

But, I do know the types you're talking about. I was in school with one guy who dropped all his classes but didn't tell his parents. So they were paying his tuition, rent, etc...and he was just living the college life, sans classes. When they found out, I think they cut him off completely.
 
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1) Everything to do with college is under student loans.

2) Everything like car insurance and phone bill is provided by my parents. Thank god.

3) Everything outside of college like shopping and that kind of stuff is from busting my ass during the summer making that money so I can live how I want to in college.

And my parents are making me pay for my own college so I will eventually have to pay off student loans. Luckily I have saved enough for one year already. Only 3-4 more to go.
 
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My first year of college I was blessed enough to have enough scholarships to get it all mostly paid for. I had to take out a small student loan (about $2000, that's small compared to what some people are taking out) to pay off the rest of Dorm/Board.

~7000 for Dorm/Board
~5000 for Tuition and Fees
~500 for First Semester Books

Got my second semester books for free. ^.^

This coming year, I'll be profiting about $3000 this semester as I won't be living on campus, and I have a part time job to pay for Rent, Utilities, some food, and gas.

My parents pay for my phone and insurance and will pay for some food.

I'm really blessed, but that's how it's going for me.
 
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