<p>Hey guys! After getting in last year as an international student, I had no idea how much I would spend apart from tuition. I have thus recorded my every spending for a month in an excel file and just did the totals for anyone who will wondering the same next year.</p>
<p>Non-Recurring Expenses: $2500 (Bedding, Laptop, Winter Clothes, Mobile Phone)
Recurring Expenses: $270 (Food, Laundry, Snacks, Cell phone provider fee)</p>
<p>Notes:
1. I don't drink or smoke
2. I went to 3 parties over 1 month but didn't spend any money. Just had to find the free ones
3. I used straight talk instead of a major cell phone provider to save fees
4. I use my meal plan generally for lunch and dinner everyday
5. Whenever I ate out, it was mostly at the halal carts which are pretty cheap. I have only spent more than $12 on a meal once in this period.
6. Domestic students will spend wayyyy less than me in the non-recurring section. I had to get many new things as I couldn't fit everything in my luggage and neither my phone nor my laptop was compatible with the us voltage + they were really outdated</p>