<p>How much money should I save if I plan on not having a job my first semester (14 weeks) as well as during the summer semester (6 weeks)?</p>
<p>around 2k should be enough…it really depends on where you eat and the amount of food you buy…plus factor in books, buying random stuff, going random places, and some university fees</p>
<p>I’m not buying book or paying for fees with that money…so its basically just if i want something special to eat or if I need some kind of hygeine product and such…</p>
<p>In that case, I’d say 1000 is enough.</p>
<p>Don’t buy useless crap you don’t need. Stay away from trendy clothes. If your university food is good, stay away from restaurants. Don’t go out just to spend money (It’s tempting, especially if your university is wealthy). And most importantly, if you are a guy, don’t get a girlfriend. If you are a girl, then get a boyfriend as fast as possible.</p>
<p>Well… I use an average of $600 a month, but that’s including numerous medications (some of which aren’t completely covered by insurance) and vitamins as well as food to supplement my meal plan since I can’t eat the majority of the food there.</p>
<p>How would I go about getting a job on campus? And how many hours a week do you recommend working with schedules similar to these?</p>
<p>Summer of 2008 (June 11th-August 2nd)</p>
<p>ENGL 1101 English Composition 1101 (3 credits)
MTWR: 8:00-9:25
Michael Davey</p>
<p>PSYC 2500 Fundamentals of Psychology (3 credits)
MTWR: 12:45-2:10
Larry Hilgert</p>
<p>Fall of 2008 (August 13th-December 3rd)</p>
<p>BIOL 2010 Unifying Principles of Biology (4 credits)
MWF: 12:00-12:50
Brain C. Ring</p>
<p>CHEM 1211 Principles of Chemistry 1 (3 Credits)
MWF: 11:00-11:50
Thomas Manning </p>
<p>CHEM 1211L Principles of Chemistry Lab (1 credit)
F: 8:00-9:50
Gary Wood</p>
<p>MATH 1113 Precalculus (3 credits)
TR: 8:00-9:15
Vickie Graham</p>
<p>ENGL 1102 English Composition 2 (3 credits)
TR: 9:30-10:45
Marilyn Dyke</p>
<p>I’m curious as to how you know your schedule in such detail so far in advance?</p>
<p>There are so many workstudy jobs out there if you have workstudy. Just look out for them. In most of them you don’t do anything important. Like me right now at my workstudy surfing this forum. i get paid 9 dollars an hour too.</p>
<p>1000 should be enough i think. i had workstudy so I kept on recharging my account and in the end I used about 500 dollars of my parent’s money on my own personal stuff through out the semester.</p>
<p>notice the word similar in that post…I’m hoping it will be somewhat close to that.</p>
<p>Workstudy your parents can only make so much…mine make over the maximum amount.</p>
<p>Well, it might be difficult for you to get a job if you’re not on workstudy. My school starts at the end of August, but if you’re not workstudy, you can’t start applying for jobs until October 1st. By that time, most of the good jobs are gone, so if your parents are above the max amount and aren’t helping you out, you’re SOL. Normally the library and food services are always hiring.</p>
<p>But also, it’s generally not a matter of how many hours you want to work but how many hours they will give you. I was looking for 10 hours but the most I could find doing something worthwhile and resume worthy was 5 at $9 an hour, but I might not be able to find a 2nd job due to the first and my schedule.</p>
<p>How much does a typical college student make from a typical part-time job (work-study or otherwise)? I’m paranoid about how many hours I’m working (and how many I should) be working or what’s ‘normal’ and if pay is ‘normal.’ Oh… and that whole factoring in time-for-yourself thing.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take summer classes the summer before your freshman year. Go out and work, make money for the year, learn what it means to not be a student, and get some life experience.</p>
<p>ive worked starting in may until this may…i like my decision to enroll in the summer.</p>
<p>Don’t llimit yourself just to on-campus jobs.</p>
<p>There are a lot of jobs that pay well enough that a student can work relatively few hours and earn maximum dollars. My oldest son (just graduated from Emory) refereed soccer games for a couple of local soccer leagues and earned $25 to $45 per game. One advantage was he could choose his own schedule; he also kept his name on the sub list so he could pick up extra money when his academic load allowed. He also taught Hebrew at a local synogogue and earned $25/hour for 6-8 hours a week. He worked one afternoon a week from 4-6 and on Sunday mornings from 9-1 and would sometimes pick up an extra afternoon if he had to sub for another teacher.</p>
<p>Just go apply for a job and hand them your schedule so they can work around it. Its not difficult.</p>
<p>Most people have to limit themselves to on campus jobs because they don’t have a car. If I was to work in town, it would be a one hour commute on foot- which isn’t bad if it’s not dark, or raining, or snowing like it is half the year. :P</p>
<p>SilverClover-- sounds like you go to the most miserable and depressing place ever. An hour from town? Jeez…</p>
<p>A half hour to walk into town center. It’s not bad at all, but just tedious in certain weather conditions. There are jobs closer on this side of town, but on average anything would be about a half hour walk- and the more upscale places are too far to walk (but only about a 10 minute drive).</p>