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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But they can pay for smartphones...
Name withheld because if we looked up her Facebook account, we'd see a waddling corpulent hambeast.
College students would say:"Hey after the first two lattes and one of those artichoke quiche things at Panera I'm back to starving. And what about my bottles of natural spring water and gluten free rice crackers?"
By the way, almost every morning I make myself delicious grits. Thanks for the shout out for that fine product.
I worked as a waitress. I got to eat there and went to school around that job (also, there was almost always something they’d let you take home).
We have now reached Soviet levels of media disinformation.
The poor dears. Ramen noodles are still around.
Not my fault.
Ah, good ole Judge Smails. Words to live by.
My GD got a 100 recipes w/Top Ramen as a gift for graduation.
And the kid cooks.
My sons, now in their 50's survived on Macaroni and Cheese which in today's world has become some kind of gourmet dinner. What a joke.
In the good old days tuition was cheap and students gained a ton of weight.
Grits, grits, of grits I sing.
Grits fits in with anything!
Not original with me, I’m afraid. But I certainly endorse the sentiment.
want the taxpayers to pay.....
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True.
And (honestly I need to lose weight, too) look at the average group of ten college students. About 4 are overweight, usually. I noticed the Walmart cardboard ad showed a heavy woman promoting their generics. And a TV ad showed a heavy nurse checking on patients for some drug.
More Amy Schumers around than Kate Uptons.
I happened to see a picture of a routine gathering of some people (maybe 100) listening to someone speak. Maybe 1950s. Only 1 or 2 out of the entire group were overweight. All others were average normal weight. Not today.
Get a part time job at a food joint. Or are they too good for a job? I worked at the library during college so I could get textbooks. To get first dibs on classes I needed, I worked Registration. I was never short of money but then I didn’t fritter it all away on $5 mocha frappe whatever coffees.
I had a meal ticket which was waaaay cheaper than going out to eat. The cafeteria was closed on the weekends so I ate a 45 cent can of Spaghetti-os or walked to the fried chicken place for a $1 snack box. Or friends would get together with someone bringing hot dog buns and someone bringing a package of franks. That was before the days of microwaves so we cooked in an ancient popcorn popper that had a heating coil or put foil on a clothes iron. Surely, these millennials can scrounge up a quarter for a package of Ramen.
They’d do better enrolling in trade school.
I ate a trainload tuna sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, and pasta with all sorts of different [cheap] toppings. Peanut butter sandwiches etc.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn....about millennial college students who never learned how to feed themselves. Take it up with mummy and da da
Not to mention the latest in big name designer clothes, manicured nails, colored and highlighted hair, tattoos, piercings, and tons of make up.
They are not hurting.
That amount is sick. There should be congressional investigations into the high price of college.
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