Posted on 05/04/2019 3:22:06 PM PDT by dynachrome
In the coming weeks, thousands of college students will walk across a stage and proudly accept their diplomas. Many of them will be hungry.
A senior at Lehman College in the Bronx dreams of starting her day with breakfast. An undergraduate at New York University said he has been so delirious from hunger, he’s caught himself walking down the street not realizing where he’s going. A health sciences student at Stony Brook University on Long Island describes “poverty naps,” where she decides to go to sleep rather than deal with her hunger pangs.
These are all examples of food insecurity, the state of having limited or uncertain access to food. Stories about college hunger have been largely anecdotal, cemented by ramen and macaroni and cheese jokes. But recent data indicate the problem is more serious and widespread, affecting almost half of the student population at community and public colleges.
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No way do I feel sorry for someone who pays more for their education than the cost of my house. In fact, if I were an employer, I wouldn't hire anyone with college debt. I'd wonder about their resourcefulness, future financial needs, judgement, and analytic skills.
Penn, Temple, Drexel, St. Joe’s, LaSalle?...
And neither place is cheap.
Danny, I’ve sent boys younger than you to the electric chair. I didn’t want to do it, I felt I...owed it to them.
NC mountains.
If you ever see MasterChef Junior, you can see that some kids (mine, too) can cook (those kids are as young as 8 years old), but college students can’t? Sorry, but if you can’t boil water, you should not be in college.
I’m trying to find that, too. Cancun Spring Break...but no money for food or tuition...
How about you loofah my stretch marks?
How would you like to come over and mow my lawn?
Beer —IS— food.
That is pretty much my point. If one cannot afford to eat out, and that same person cannot learn how to eat simply and cheaply, then that person needs to stay at home with mommy and dada. That would be the same mommy and dada that are responsible for sending with such a helpless creature out into the cruel world.
True, we go there (Panera) on Sunday, but I can. Panera is expensive, but with free coffee - and soda - refills, it is nice.
Good. "Hope they starve and die. Buncha’ soft snowflakes of this generation. If you do not have the intelligence to make the logical decision to actually WORK part time like millions of college grads for the past 100 years, then you do not deserve a diploma."
My mother put herself through college during the depression and was graduated with honors. She got room and board for working for a family doing basically everything in that home..
She worked as a secretary for the college for cash and spending money. Her parents paid the tuition and bought her books.
With that history, I would have been ashamed to ask my parents to fund my college. I started saving when I was 13. I bought a power lawn mower and a push edger. I had a job in a grocery store when I turned 16 and great summer jobs. I had over a dozen yards I did until I was graduated from high school.
There were all types of jobs available at college, and ones we could create, like teaching students how to play bridge, tutoring jocks and rich kids. Modeling/selling clothes at college and at home in the men's stores. I got paid in clothes.
I had dorm food the first two years. Then, my roommates and I shared food costs and cooking my junior year.
My senior year, I was the evening and weekend chef. My roommates bought stuff for dinner and lunches for the weekends which I prepared. They cleaned up the dishes..
Our dates loved to come over for weekend dinners from pizza from scratch to many things charcoaled. They would bring the beer or wine.
Sometimes, our landlord and/or lady would provide the food if I prepped and cooked it. They, also, helped in the prep and cleanup. I learned about wine with meals and the wine from them.
I finished my senior year with more money in my checking acct than when I started it.
Oh yeah. One of my older brothers went to a little Catholic college outside of Charlotte many years ago, Belmont Abbey. Drove down there with him (from NJ). I remember going up and down those very steeps hills and mountain sides. Beautiful country though.
And yet no word on how many have iPhones and go out drinking every weekend. US kids don’t know real poverty
That happens when you venture into uncivilized regions.
I fed 3 boy and self working a job that paid $3.50 a hr. Clipped coupons, ate what was on sale, lots of Mac N cheese, hot dogs, spaghetti without meat. Clothes came out of rummage sales, couldn’t get child support collected as he ran out of state and I wasn’t living with an crazy man who wanted to abuse my boys. I went hungry many days so they could eat. Worked sick. My boys are grown, they learned the same work ethic. Eldest puts in 70-80 hrs a week as a manager. Youngest what ever OT he can get. Each has only 1 child, the eldest is nearly 18 yrs old, eldest makes his work for his car ins, phone, youngest has a 19 month old, wife is going to nursing school.
GET A JOB after school if you plan to eat. Wait tables, wash dishes for 4 hrs a day, even tutor for pay.
I was hungry in college, too, so I got a job. Sure it made school more stressful but I did what I had to do to eat.
No. Then what about a can of tuna and some bread? Millenials are the most over-indulged generation ever. $10’s of thousands for tuition on worthless degrees, but can’t figure out what to eat.
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