Posted on 05/21/2019 2:18:00 PM PDT by rktman
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show seized on a highly questionable survey claiming that many college students across the U.S. were being forced to choose between “tuition or food.” Correspondent Jacob Soboroff even went so far as to claim that “The strong U.S. economy is a myth to many American college students.”
“Eating or education? Jacob Soboroff with an eye-opening look at the cost of college and its toll,” co-host Savannah Guthrie teased late in the 7:00 a.m. ET half hour. Just minutes prior to the segment, fellow co-host Craig Melvin repeated the melodramatic sentiment: “Tuition or food? How the rising cost of college is actually forcing some students to make hard choices. And what, if anything, can be done about it?”
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The only thing that’s a myth is the *hungry, homeless college students* crap.
If you are a college student and you’re not hungry, you aren’t doing it right.
A 24 pk of Ramen noodles costs about the same as a fancy cup ‘o crap from Starbucks
Then they can stop schooling and start working.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
People who struggle and starve starting out in life and their careers, either get motivated and excel or give up and quit trying.
That decision will set the tone and reality for the rest of their working life.
So I don't think a little hunger in the stomach is such a bad thing when you need some impetus to succeed.
Starving in your gut makes you hungry to rise above it.
The local TV station had a “news” feature a few months ago. A food pantry opened up so that hungry college students (Southern Illinois Univ) could get free food. They showed three girls using the pantry and saying how it kept them from going hungry. Ironically all three were obese. They might be hungry, but they weren’t going to starve.
“Well, you don’t NEED to finish in 4 years or less. “
When I was going, you kinda did. Selective Service expected you finish college in four years, that was 15 hours per quarter/semester. If you flunked a class that might be enough to tip the balance. It was an incentive to do one’s best.
There used to be a Starving Students moving company that seemed to do ok.
As did many other here, I worked my way through college. First two years at Community College (basically free, worked on campus), then on to state university (not free, but a bargain— as it still is if one stays in-state.) Made it out in 5.5 years. Ate many, many potatoes. At times was pretty hungry, and a little concerned about food. Worked at gas stations and tire shops, and rode my bike (from high school) pretty much everywhere. Semester breaks and summer were for working full-time. Was that way for most of us, as I recall, and we were genuinely pretty happy most of the time.
Considering that the vast majority shouldn’t even be janitors at a real college, why should we give an Obama?
I bought a case of Ramen noodles
just as I burned out on eating them.
It’s going to outlast me.
Bull .... my daughter just graduated and had a job offer 2 months prior with additional interviews if she wanted.
Oh, to the article, not to me. Almost had me triggered there. LOL! Pretty generalized article aimed/targeted/shooting for the slackers. Talk about trigger words! :-)
-PJ
I did that from the time I was 18 for most of my college time-I was a single mom with a baby-green ranch girl in the city to go to college and live on my own for the 1st time-after a year and 1/2 of having to take off a semester here and there to work more hours waiting tables full time, another student and friend steered me to the upscale supper-and-night club in the tourist district where she worked as a cocktail waitress-I got hired, and made twice as much serving drinks working half the hours as I had serving food-I was working at night so my aunt who lived nearby babysat my cub-and I was making enough in tips to go full time to classes.
I was able to afford fresh food to cook, too after subsisting on “dorm food” staples like hamburger helper, ramen noodles and the $1.99 menu at the First Mate or burger place for the last 2 years-the supper club would let employees eat dinner there in the kitchen for free, too as long as you had the special for that day-otherwise you paid 1/2 the customer price for any other menu item-a good deal-there is no need even today to go hungry to pay for classes-last time I looked, reataurants and night clubs still hire students and some let them eat free, there are still really cheap food items at the fast food places- Hamburger helper, Spam, canned tuna and ground beef are sold at every grocery store, and the dollar stores sell Ramen noodles for even less than the grocery store...
Every student I knew worked and paid for their classes-there were a few who didn’t work, but they were trust-fund baby types and not in my working class peer group in any case.
I married a guy from that peer group after we both graduated-no student debt to pay off, etc. But that was then, this is now-and there certainly are more pussified young adults in school-I really wonder how/if they will be able to find work, and actually hold a job-if I were a supervisor at a major corporation, I don’t see myself hiring one of those snowflakes-would not be cost effective at all...
This is someone who doesnt understand the difference between broke and poor.
College students are broke and have little income. They are not poor.
Time honored noodle soup at cheap prices at the box stores and cheap eats. One glass of wine got me all the snackies I could eat at the local happy hour.
I remember a friend and I sitting in the park near thanksgiving, looking at a Canada Goose, wondering whether we could trap it and bring it home to prepare and cook.
One needs to be creative.
Little jobs? They are still available. At least in this area.
I remember being in that position, but we always had money for beer!
Where we are too. Amazon fullfilment center will help, plenty of dollar stores and discount shops. PLENTY of thrift stores for decent clothes and shoes. It can be done.
You’re right-all that it requires is to go inside the businesses that have “now hiring” signs in the window and ask about the position-or go online to any of the hiring sites and check out what is in your area-not much effort required at all...
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