<p>Don't visit ebay.</p>
<p>Get a job (workstudy!). Then you won't have to save money. As much.</p>
<p>I fail.</p>
<p>Make sure to take advantage of any free food possible on-campus.</p>
<p>Buying bottled water in bulk, or just refilling when you can.</p>
<p>get a job. you dont generate money by saving.</p>
<p>If you don't think you have enough time for a job, a great way to make a little extra cash on the side is participating in research studies conducted by behavioral labs on campus for sociologists and psychologists. They rarely take more than an hour or two and pay well, and more than one department may offer them. Just be wary of med school research studies, which can be rather invasive</p>
<p>Don't eat as much; you'd be surprised on how little you can survive on. The tap water is potable, and a single $10 investment in a sport multivitamin will give you all the nutrients you'll be missing out on. Like one of the above posters mentioned, buy bags of rice, just eat that. If you're hard pressed for money, you'll find ways to scrape by. </p>
<p>Is there a Hare Krishna line at your school? You can always buy a pizza once a week, and eat one slice from it everyday. </p>
<p>It worked for me for an entire semester, though I don't recommend it.</p>
<p>Ohmygod this thread is so awesome.</p>
<p>Yeah, actually, what I'm doing is this:</p>
<p>I stay overnight in the library 3 nights per week. So I only have to commute between home and school for 2 roundtrips per week. There is only one risk: the risk of theft: but I found a place in the library where I can put my backpack behind some narrow passageway between the tables and the wall, so someone has to go under a table to grab it.</p>
<p>Also, if your library has library reserves, you could use the books there as textbooks rather than buying them. OR, you can download some textbooks off bittorrent.</p>
<p>==
but what about hot water? (for the coffee beans I bring to school). Does anyone know of any good ways? I just go up to the coffee shop and ask them for hot water, which they dispense for free, but I'm wary of doing it too much.</p>
<p>^--- what about showering and food? well, i guess you can probably shower at the gym, and get a locker there for about $5 and leave clean clothes there. but you'd have to buy food too, and that costs $$$. well i guess you can leave cup noodles there too, so you can live on that. i guess i just answered my own questions. lol</p>
<p>do you sleep in the library? that's so uncomfortable i bet</p>
<p>It helps me to withdraw cash from my checking account at the beginning of every week to use instead of my debit card (it's too easy to go a little swipe-happy & not keep track of how much you're spending..).</p>
<p>For the question about hot water/coffee...</p>
<p>There are probably microwaves available somewhere on your campus. Bring a microwave safe mug, tap water, microwave it - voila, hot water</p>
<p>Also, at the coffee shop on my campus, it costs less money if you bring your own mug/cup (you can also get a slightly larger serving size) - about $1</p>
<p>Go to all the free-food events you can.</p>
<p>I only shower weekly/every 2 weeks as I'm Asian. :p. I don't have body odor even when I go for weeks without showering. (my parents only start complaining about hair odor, but not body odor)
The</a> Straight Dope: Do Chinese lack sweat glands in their armpits? Why does spicy food make you sweat?</p>
<p>Quite a few people sleep in the library every day, actually.</p>
<p>hmm, interesting about the "bringing your own cup to the coffee shop"</p>
<p>^ ewww hmm i would say go to the dining halls everyday and whenever possible</p>
<p>IK that's disgusting</p>
<p>lol. that is pretty gross. i get itchy if i don't shower everyday. i'm asian too. you must have some powerful sweat glands. lol.</p>
<p>I ate a fried egg sandwich for 4 of 5 days a week every week for 3 years of law school. I ate out on Fridays for lunch. I took a coffee maker to my study closet and made my own coffee. ( Well actually it wasn't supposed to be my study closet but it was vacant when I looked under it....they all were vacant so I adopted one as my own.)</p>
<p>Buy cheap beer. After the first 6 to 8 it all tastes the same.</p>
<p>Easy Mac, Easy Mac, Easy Mac! And I bought Starbucks iced coffee cans in bulk- it turned out to be much cheaper than stopping at the Starbucks on campus and paying twice as much for a smaller cup of coffee.</p>
<p>Ramen!</p>
<p>I wish I would have followed the coffee advice. I spent way too much money on Starbucks last year. Terrible!</p>
<p>I prefer to eat tofu and salad, which is a cheap combo.</p>