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i shared a room (with one other person) in a fairly spacious 3 bedroom duplex with a huge back yard, washer/dryer, decent sized kitchen and some prime green shag carpet for $550… with utilities, it came out to about $600. i lived with 4 other people on sueno… that’s about as cheap as it gets living in a house, but if you’re serious about this, look into Garden Court. through craigslist, i’d be willing to bet that you’ll be able to find a room to split pretty quickly at around $375 a month. the management there is ****ty, and the walls are paper thin, but it’s definitely habitable. add another $25 or so for utilities, making it 400 or so… that puts you at $3,600 for rent for the entire school year… plus $9,000 for tuition, $1,000 for books and supplies (you’ll have to shop around, but their estimated $1,500 is way high…), plus about $3,000 for food over the course of the year, $2,000 if all you eat is pasta, chicken breasts from costco, salad, cereal and broccoli (trust me…)</p>
<p>so, you’ll need about $17k just to live… if you live especially modestly (bottom barrel domestic beer, don’t leave IV / eat out EVER — both of which aren’t hard to do, i promise), you’ll need about another $2k for miscellaneous ish…</p>
<p>so $19k is a life…</p>
<p>$4k is taken care of by aid…</p>
<p>leaving you with $15k…</p>
<p>a part time job (20 hr/wk) at 9 an hour would pay about $6,500 before taxes</p>
<p>leaving you to come up with $8,500 in dreaded loans…</p>
<p>ain’t so bad, man…
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<p>Wow Pinkerfloyd. I gotta give you props man. You are pretty dedicated man. I would probably only that for Berkeley but yea… props.</p>
<p>@ itransfer… i didn’t do that… it was just an outline of how the OP can manage it… and really, it’s not a WHOLE lot of effort… measurable, yes… but totally reasonable.
<p>@ OP… also, if you get a summer job, you should be able to earn another $2,500, at least.</p>
<p>My parents want to kick me out.</p>
<p>And I don’t nag them, have messy friends or any friends over, beg for or even have a cell phone, or ask or have them buy me a car.</p>
rc251
April 30, 2009, 2:29pm
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<p>You could also try to get a space in the UCSB-owned apartment complexes. Maybe tell them your situation. You can see that their rates are a lot cheaper than the dorms:</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Apartments: Descriptions & Rates](<a href=“http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/hchoices/ugrad-descriptions.htm]Undergraduate ”>http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/hchoices/ugrad-descriptions.htm )</p>
<p>@rc… fool, garden court = $375 / month.</p>
rc251
April 30, 2009, 3:26pm
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<p>The UCSB apartments include all utilities and are fully furnished though. So you don’t have to worry about anything when you get there.</p>
<p>you’re trippin if you think that makes a difference.</p>