Posted on 04/03/2018 5:06:12 PM PDT by bgill
Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn’t like the food in the dining hall. A first-generation college student, barely covering tuition, Torres ran out of grocery money halfway through the year and began skipping meals as a result. He’d stretch a can of SpaghettiOs over an entire day. Or he’d scout George Washington University campus for events that promised free lunch or snacks. Torres told no one what he was going through, least of all his single mom. "She had enough things to worry about," he said... Now a senior and living off-campus, in a housing situation that supplies most of his meals,
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How many used up all their grant money (our tax dollars) on Spring Break?
The article stated the opposite...that he did like it but didn't have the money for it.
In any event, the article claims people say there isn't enough student aid, tuition is too high, etc. All of the aid has caused inflation in tuition - these people contradict themselves.
This is also probably a bubble. College educations used to be high quality - now it includes numerous garbage courses of study that don't prepare anyone for a career and teach them false information / propaganda - indoctrination rather than education.
Gut wrenching not achieved. But there does seem to be a lack of self reliance and ingenuity crisis hidden on college campuses.
Then perhaps they should not be in college but out in the work force until they can afford college. They could always work and take classes online part-time. My dad was in veterinary school, had a family to support, and worked part-time to make extra money. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
What really is the issue here is why anybody should suffer. After all, we are a “rich” nation and everyone is entitled to everything everyone needs, no one should have to go without. Tell that to the Pilgrims, the Donner party, the Revolutionary Army and their leader, George Washington, and others who have not gotten a full day’s meal, an education, and everything these socialists insist upon, but can never deliver. Their real intent is theft, theft to equalize nothing. Nonsense.
Dollar tree everything a buck.
but wouldn’t that make him something of an expert on starvation?
Based on shopping last night, paid a bit more than usual for eggs so your list:
eggs: !.37
hot dogs: Often .99 but let’s say $1.19
Cheap hot dog buns: About 88 cents at Wal*Mart
Sooooo #3.44 plus tax - Less than $4
Even get $1 mustard at the dollar store or a small one at WM.
Yep $5 for an easy 8 days of food. They could even eat 2 eggs a day for 6 of those days.
Bread is $1 at WM - the loaves they bake so there’s toast.
Wonder if he could pull $6 out of that $100?
And I could do three loads of laundry at a hotel $1.50 machine and $1.50 dryer for less than $10-$11 if I used my soap on several loads. So now he’s up to $17.
My boss, at a major aerospace company, told me about his college days when he would go to McDonalds and pick up as many free ketchup packages as he could. Then he used them to make "spaghetti sauce" for top ramen.
I must have been "rich" because I always saved enough from my summer job to get weekend meals, even if they were lean.
Somehow we made it through...
[and I was broke and hungry plenty of times]
[But you are dead.]
Now that is one guy who knows how to save money on food!!!
Might be a bit extreme, though......;)
Bread is $1 at WM - the loaves they bake so there’s toast.
Shoot, I knew that Mark of the Beast would be a piece of cake when I went to class (went back to college) and the vending machines would take the student charge card for payments. This was in 1989.
I’m sure it was all rolled up into the bill sent to Mom and Dad.
Chips and candy bars for everyone! (you know it happened)
They have it on the closeout shelf. If you keep it dry (don’t let it get cold or the Sun - both will cause condensation in the sack) it will last 2 days beyond best buy date.
Here, those go for $0.60 but you have to watch them.
There are ALWAYS bread and pastry items on the closeout shelf. They keep it next to the milk and eggs at the WM I was at tonight.
Another WM, about 10 miles the other direction, was running 36 eggs (large I believe) for $1.36 a few months back. Sometimes they overstock. Two 18-egg containers shrink-wrapped together. Made fried eggs, boiled eggs and egg-salad (at various times) outta that.
Got Nutella at the grocery store because they were closing it out - never had it before. It was 99 cents marked down from $3.79. Bought 4, 3 went into the food storage. Short shelf life though. Only until June. I’m sure it will be just fine in August though.
I’m getting a few items with late 2020 shelf-life now. Strawberry preserves in a jar, and WM green beans (big can 94 cents). Just variety items. Waiting for peanut butter to go back on sale, though.
My oldest daughter worked her way through her first three years of college in Pensacola. She then went with us for a year to Africa and earned enough money to ride through her last couple of years of studies.
She still decided to work “just in case” something happened.
Couldn’t be prouder.
When I was a poor government lawyer, I ate oatmeal for breakfast, took grilled cheese to the office for lunch, and ate a pot pie for dinner. My old apartment had high ceilings, and no insulation. I kept it at 65 and slept with a hat on and a heating pad so I could pay the bill.
LOL I still do that once in a while for nostalgias sake; add an egg or two stir-fryed in a wok. Yum.
That was a feast in the lean times.
What a crock. I guess the author never heard of freshman fifteen.
Yep!
Oddly enough, IT WAS GOOD TIMES.
That era of suffering made us what we are now.
We are stronger now because we rose above adversity.
And since I went to SFSU, I also rose above diversity.
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