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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36% don’t get enough to eat.
50% don’t belong in college.
In the late 70s, our state univ. dorms were very quiet. They didn’t tolerate parties and loud music. It was conservative and most everyone went home on the weekends. I didn’t have a car until Senior year. It was very quiet on the weekends and nearly dead during the summers. Yes, they’d make you go home during holidays but I never had to move my stuff out so it was ok.
The worst noise was one semester my randomly assigned room mate cooed like a dove 24/7. Two evening classes and dollar night at the movies helped a lot. Thankfully, she didn’t come back that Spring.
I always thought we were upper middle class.
Didn’t learn until I got to college that some would consider my family “poor”.
I considered them poor. All they had was a house on an acre lot in the city. We had nearly 200 acres with a wild rive through it (land too poor, and growing season too short to make a living on).
Maybe he should go to a university that does not cost $55k per year in tuition???
https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1537
These days, snowflakes simply don’t have time for a job because they’re taking .... 9 hours/semester!!!! NINE!!!! Wow!!! Such a strain!!!!
“The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat”
A good chunk of them are too stupid to know to eat.
Check out the dumpster behind McDonalds you tossers.
“And compared to our fore fathers.. I was a pussy. Today’s generations have NOT the slightest clues”
If Trump follows through with reforming food stamps into food boxes there will starvation deaths if the food isn’t microwave ready.
Bet they have enough to drink & smoke!
It doesn’t help that these gonef institutions of higher brainwashing are gouging the living shit out of students. Hypocritical communists that they are.
Who’s fault is that? Their parents’ fault because they want to be their BFFs rather than parents. They’re clueless.
I made sure our kids knew how to make it on their own. You want toys or clothes, then there’s the thrift store. Here’s a needle and thread to sew that button back on. You want to know about budgeting, then here’s the bills and lets learn to write checks and balance the checkbook. Want some fresh veggies, there’s the garden. Daughter made the entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch, dressing to pies, when she was in 4th grade. The only thing she had to have help with was to get Mr. b to pull the 20 lb bird from the oven. She learned to sew and won first place at the fair for her scrap (aka free) quilt in 5th grade.
“Good character building experience.”
I knew a man who survived as a POW in Viet Nam on pumpkins, pig fat and fish heads.
In the 60s there was a hospital next door to my dorm, in Austin TX. You could go into the basement next to the kitchen, and the nuns would serve it up till you were full. All the milk you could drink. It was plenty nutritious and not bad on the delicious rank. As I recall, it was on the order of 50 cents. That’s when gas was 25 cents and a loaf of white bread was the same.
I remember when money got tight mid-semester, i could stretch a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, and a jar of jelly (about $2 total in 1978) for close to a week. Of course I called my girlfriend only on Sundays when the weekend rates were low, LOL.
Maybe part of the problem is the sky rocketing cost of tuition! Amazing how when you subsidize something the price usually goes up.
I was in the Air force for almost six years before going into the Reserves and finishing my last two years of college.
Since I had saved money and made a few good investments during my enlistment I actually bought my parents old house which was about eight miles from campus (my parents had moved for their retirement). My wife got stationed 180 miles away so we saw each other on weekends and we were doing OK.
I entered AFROTC and most of those young adults had jobs so they could afford the meal plans on campus and tuition but the dining halls were closed on Sundays and only open for one meal on Saturdays and they were quite poor. My wife and I would call them up and have them come to my home and I would drive to campus to pick up anyone who could not get a ride and take them to my house where my wife and I would make huge, inexpensive spaghetti or pasta dinners, make cheap homemade pizzas, or cook up a lot of venison and salmon that I hunted or fished for. They would also get to use our washer and dryer for free and while they ate and cleaned their clothes we would watch movies on TV and have a good time.
If we had not done those things some of those young adults would have been pretty hungry over the weekend.
Are they already recycling this ridiculous story? Maybe if the fools didn't blow all their student loan money on Booze, drugs and partying they could buy some food. Not my problem, cupboards are pretty bare in my home but I don't go crying about it. If these 'students' are hungry let cry to their real mommies, not mommy taxpayer
A crisis? I only attended one year of college but it sounds like college to me.
I lived in a dorm and ate at the dining hall too. I was always hungry.
We had pizza tonight (yeah, not low carb but the crust was thin). Homemade dough with leftovers for the toppings. Will be eating on that for a couple days. Yesterday, had chicken soup after boiling down leftover chicken bones. Pizza, like soup and casserole, is great for using up little bits of leftovers that many throw out.
Easter Sunday, I made fish filets, cucumber salad and carrot soufflé. Mr. b said he thought he was eating at Trump Towers. Didn’t tell him it came to $1.13 per plate.
Kids can eat free lunch every day at the different Ministry venues on or near campus
That reminds me of calling home on Sundays by making a collect call to myself so my mom would call me back on her dime since we couldn’t make long distance calls.
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