Posted on 04/03/2018 5:06:12 PM PDT by bgill
every college I can visit has free food giveaways right on campus nowadays....plus special counseling to sign up for all the welfare and food stamps and other freebies including free cell phones and free transit passes and free health care and so forth plus many of the schools have easy fee waivers (free education) for anyone once they are signed up for any of the above...
and so forth and so on. nobody looks hungry, tho of course appearances can be deceiving, and the student parking lot has far, far fancier cars (and all new ones too) compared to the workers’ parking lots
plus there are always the deferred repayment (and sometimes waived entirely) student loans available at any time for anyone needing that kind of assistance, too
I frankly do not believe 37 percent or even 7 percent of college students are starving. maybe 3 percent, and they are not showing it
For the price of a can of spaghetti’Os he could have bought a pound of pintos and an onion.
By the end of the day he’d be sick of eating beans.
Experts say the factors underlying campus hunger are complex. More low-income students are enrolling in college, thanks to expanded needs-based scholarship and grant programs, a move away from standardized test scores as part of the application process, and other initiatives designed to recruit more diverse students.
Bet this guy is an illegal.
Bingo
HA!. LMAO.
LOL, my first year of law school I and my roommates subsisted primarily on rice covered with cans of Campbell’s mushroom soup.
Poor snowflakes
Ramen noodles, beef or chicken are $1.94-$2.12 at Wal*Mart for 12. I’ll have to look at the box again. 2 a day, that’s 6 days. I bought crackers for $1.75 on sale at the grocery stoere. $4 you can eat for 6 days. Not well, but you can eat.
Wal*Mart also runs a dozen eggs for 58 cents a lot of the time around here (Midwest). Boil them and you can eat 2 a day for 6 days.
$5 spent, probably, with tax.
I ate them for two weeks (and drank no soda, just water) 10 years ago.
Didn’t. Lost. A. Single. Pound (I’m sorry to say, LOL)
Ha!...my bother and I were just talking about the ‘meals’ we ate in college, earlier tonight.....Ever hear of mayonaise sandwiches! or Ketchup sandwhiches! HAHAHA!....Peanut Butter and crackers for lunch if we actually ate! Two slices of French toast was a main dinner course.....
He may be starving but I bet his bandwith and data plan are fabulous.
We couldn't have a hot plate and microwaves and mini fridges were unheard of. We were allowed a popcorn popper so I brought an ancient one that had coils in the bottom to warm up those Spaghettios and later on I found 25 cent boxes of mac and cheese. Guessing Ramen hadn't been invented then. Sometimes we'd throw a party and put foil on irons to heat wieners for dry hot dogs.
A year or two after graduation, I bought a microwave!
Aw, snowflakes have to get day old bagels. Silly things, wait until they get out into the real world. We live not just in "food insecurity" aka a budget but live in a food desert so we have to drive into town to the one and only grocery store to purchase many day old bread at full price. Oh, noes! Our grocery's bread is shipped in frozen.
students who don’t have their parents’ full financial support can find themselves facing difficult choices
Here's a radical idea - get a J-O-B!
On the up side, they aren't gaining the Freshman 15 lbs.
They’ll do laundry too!
I put in 12-15 hour days and ate only one meal. I was always hungry, never complained and I survived. Live with it.
What I found was getting a job that pays money helps a lot when buying food.
All the colleges I visited for my kids had food courts with EVERY brand restaurant in them.
And the one my daughter attends is surrounded by every type of restaurant you can imagine.
This idea of starving college kids is utter b.s.
Today’s medical definition of obese is 10 lbs over weight. Those students who gain their Freshman 15 are now considered obese. Wow, who knew college students ate pizza and beer and that would cause weight gain?!?
Today’s medical definition of obese is 10 lbs over weight. Those students who gain their Freshman 15 are now considered obese. Wow, who knew college students ate pizza and beer and that would cause weight gain?!?
Let me guess. They polled 90% males. There wasn’t one minute while I was in college that I wasn’t hungry
In the old days all college students were hungry.
But the difference between college kids of today vs. college kids when I went to college is ... about 30 lbs.
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