Posted on 04/28/2018 10:14:47 AM PDT by bgill
UT Austin will officially open the doors to its first food pantry and career closet. Current UT students will be able to get one bag of free food per month. If they need professional clothing for internship or job interviews, they can also get clothes from the career closet. "In some ways, [it's] supplemental income, so they're able to pay rent, buy those textbooks," said Student Emergency Service coordinator Will Ross. "So students have access to food and not spend at the grocery store."...The program allowed those with qualified parking citations to pay them off through donations of 40-oz. plastic jars of peanut butter.
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If you go to a school with a big football program, you could literally make a couple of hundred bucks in tips alone waiting tables on football weekends.
I certainly hope this is sarcasm.
Trot yourself down to the admissions office and get a work study job on campus.
Also if you work at a restaurant, you usually get a free meal out of it.
Regarding college costs, etc. my cuz asked recently, “How much in student loans did you have to take out?” I said, “None, I worked my way through.” A rather unique idea today.
At the University of Alabama, only the freshman live in campus and have to get a meal plan. There are limited spots on campus for upper classmen.
The meal plan is $3000 a year. Most kids don’t pay for that after they move off campus.
:) Did that back in the day: Worked in the cafeteria at the university and as a receptionist at the community college. (Not in that order) Summer jobs did not exist where I lived...thank you, Jimmy Carter.
I just doubt those types of employment on campus are still available. Same with openings near universities that work around college schedules.
I may be wrong of course.
My mom’s youngest brother walked from Lynchburg, VA to Charlottesville, VA each Sunday night/Monday morning.
From Monday-Friday he attended classes and worked in the cafeteria to help defray costs.
He walked back to Lynchburg on Friday night and worked at the local Piggly Wiggly Friday night and Saturday.
Rinse, repeat.
During the summer he worked at Piggly Wiggly, mowed yards and whatever else he could do to earn money for the next year of college.
His senior year he flat ran out of money.
He joined the army and eight years later had saved enough to finish his degree.
He ended up working for Babcock/Wilcox Naval Nuclear division.
He owed not one cent when he finished his school.
He enjoyed his time in the army so much he was buried in his uniform.
What kind of box wine goes with peanut butter?
The problem with a meal plan was that it couldn’t squeeze out enough discretionary funds for cigarettes and beer
Their generation doesn’t care. They create gofundme accounts for all sorts of things. I understand that medical expenses can be high. I can’t even imagine asking for donations to cover our medical expenses (I had identical twins who almost died, and then many years later, my husband had cancer and lost his job.)
We knew a girl who did a Kickstarter for recording an album.
UT is expensive, so I have little sympathy for those kids. My daughter went to community college, and she did hear some pretty awful stories. She’s at Sonoma State now, and some of those kids lost their homes in the fires.
I would rather colleges have emergency scholarship funds to give out in the event of some tragedy (known several who have lost both parents in a year).
You are wrong. Lots of jobs on campus for students and flexible jobs off campus. Most colleges will help students find a job too.
Same here, at least my last two years of college (95-97). I had a small refrigerator and either drove or took the bus (depending on schedule and whether or not I could afford gas) to the local grocery store. I saved hundreds of dollars that semester over the cost of the meal plan, and costs are only worse now. Then again, my "Expected Parental Contribution" for a year of my son's college is higher than the total cost of two years' of my college, and my son has multiple scholarships (including National Merit). I don't doubt some students are lazy, but the cost of college is a real problem.
My daughter attends FSU. Thank God, we live in town and she can stay home. It’s the room and board that kills ya.
A nice chianti.
Apparently these snowflakes’ parents didn’t bother to teach them about things like a budget, a job and personal responsibility-when I was in college, bartender and waitstaff jobs at the supper clubs/nightclubs and other restaurants that had a bar in any of the tourist areas of the city were hotly competed for by students.
I was lucky enough to get hired by one of the nicest nightclub/supperclubs-great tips-and you could have free dinner as long as you chose the least expensive item on the daily special menu. For other meals, there was the ever-present ramen, hamburger helper-or the $2.99 special at the
First Mate fish fast food place, if you had a few extra bucks-and being a ranch kid, any time I went home for the weekend, my mom would let me pick and bag up veggies from the garden and she’d give me some ground beef and some chicken from the freezer, too...
I call mega BS. There is no crisis. It's all a scam and scandal. All colleges have a plethora of services and are flush with money. My local Community College has everything a student needs. The universities are communistic cities within themselves with some having BILLIONS in endowments.
University of Texas Endowment:
3.642 billion USD
2017
Search for college endowments shows pages of colleges with not less than a billion dollars. It is stunning the money that is in “education”. There is more there than in most corporations.
Many colleges don’t charge by the credit hour but a flat rate. That helps a lot if students could be bothered to take the max. number of allowed classes. But nooooo. They whine at taking the min. of 9 hrs/sem to maintain their full time status. Many refuse to even do that. I tried to take 18-21 hrs/sem and graduated in 3 years (no AP or high school college credits back then) to save my parents money they couldn’t afford. Also, worked part time to pay for weekend meals not included on the meal plan. Bought the cheapest most tattered books in the bookstore and borrowed textbooks from the campus library. BIO II, used mother’s very old textbook because they hadn’t ordered new ones. Had a blast without whining or starving.
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