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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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What drivel! I worked to be accepted into a college. I worked to stay in college. I worked to graduate from college. I damned well worked to pay for college before entering, while a student, and after graduation. Throughout, I ensured I had adequate meals.
The responsibility was mine alone. The opportunity to do such was available to all. It still is. It just takes work.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Those who can’t understand that, should not be in any position of responsibility, let alone college.
love those grits.....
Yeah. Another FRiend here who isn’t ashamed to speak up in favor of all American grits. I salute you.
Yep. I lived on bean and rice burritos and Kraft mac and cheese.
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I developed a system for making supper last all day.
At the training table which was supper only, You could eat all you wanted plus we got steaks, good steaks, twice a week.
I would pig out for that meal, then take six ice cream sandwiches home with me. I lived off campus. For breakfast I would eat two of the ice cream sandwiches, then four for lunch. Then at supper start all over again.
Must be all that fattening air they breath!
No scarcity of the overweight on college campuses.
Not too many meals missed.
Is this supposed to be something new?
They find the money for pot and beer though.
Sigh...if it wasn’t for the white man these kids would be well fed and at the top of their class.
Think of it as “liquid beead”. Ingredients of bread: grain, yeast, water. Ingredients of beer: grain, yeast, water. Seeing a pattern here?
CC
“It’s a hard thing, man. I have to skip meals or go on welfare to get my college degree.”
“What’s your major?”
“ African-American Social Enhancements.”
“Get used to skipping meals.”
Beans, pb&j sandwich, eggs, potatoes and pasta. Some brands of canned veggies are still 50 cents.
What happened to the Freshman 15?
Yet they have NO problem buying a 800 dollar iPhone..cause ya know, priorities
How many times did you take pop bottles back to buy gas? Or sell blood plasma? I did. Several times at least.
CC
2/3 of the world lives on rice.
For the price of 3 Starbucks lattes or 3 packs of cigarettes or three combo meals at any fast food restaurant you can buy a 25 pound bag of rice at any Asian grocery store. I do just that. Tightly sealed out of light, rice keeps for YEARS.
Do you know how many meals you can get out of a 25 lb bag of rice? Cheap and easy to add a veggie and a little protein.
These people are so disgustingly helpless. It ought to be a felony to be a parent who sends a kid off to college so devoid of basic living skills and lacking even a smattering of common sense.
My first semester in college... back in 1973, I had $66 in my checkbook a guitar and a 10 speed. Even then I was desperately underfunded. Pops didn’t give a rip... and it was my $66 not his. I learned a big lesson. I really did spend my money foolishly the summer prior to that fall. Big mistake.
I pulled some money together during Christmas break but it was still hard times.
The room and board was handled. No snacks, soft drinks nothing. Mom set me up with toiletries and laundry supplies. Pops was right up there the biggest tightwads known to man. Some of it rubbed off.
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