Student survival stories

[Philol]

What is the weirdest or most unusual thing you've had to do to survive as a student at University or college etc. Could be you or someone else's story. I've only been a student for a couple of months, so I haven't done anything too weird, but a house mate of mine bought 40 packs of 11p instant noodles, apparently they weren't bad...

 

[lRookiel]

My cousin had to live 10 days on a tight budget in her Uni course just eating this, but a cheaper version of it!

<spoiler=cheesy bean>

 

[rayen020]

My cousin had to live 10 days on a tight budget in her Uni course just eating this, but a cheaper version of it!

<spoiler=cheesy bean>

that actually looks really good...

OT; me and my girlfriend (now wife) were once down to a sleeve of saltine crackers, half a tub of butter, one slice of cheese and an empty jar of mayonaise as the only food in our apartment. Stupid work forgot to mail our paychecks and had to wait till the next pay day to pay us for some god awful reason. Thank god the kids were staying with their father that summer.

 

[lRookiel]

that actually looks really good...

'Twas the only picture I could find sadly, my cousin had to deal with a MUCH cheaper and nastier version that you might not find so visually appealing.

It made her ill afterwards hahaha, she regretted spending nearly all of her monthly budget in 2 weeks.

 

[zulu.fox]

I remember spending a month living off what I could get out of Poundland / 99p stores . I did it for a bet mind

 

[Colour Scientist]

I just ran out of money today and I don't get paid for another three days. I have to live off the contents of my food press which consists of several bourbon biscuits, questionable bread, a tin of tuna and and empty box of cup-a-soup.

Hmm... I think I may have to borrow money/food from my boyfriend to survive.


Pasta/noodles are your friends.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

I'm not really a student but I'm basically living off of instant noodles while I'm living at home/searching for a job. My mother doesn't force me to but I feel like enough of a burden as it is. Even if I am paying rent.

 

[MightyRabbit]

I've currently got a £7 a week food budget, and I'm pretty much living off of toast sandwiches right now. A sandwich where the filling is a slice of toast. Actually, with some salt and pepper it's really quite nice.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I've currently got a £7 a week food budget, and I'm pretty much living off of toast sandwiches right now. A sandwich where the filling is a slice of toast. Actually, with some salt and pepper it's really quite nice.

According to the RSC, the cheapest meal you can get for the nutrition it gives you... why the RSC say that as opposed to the IBiol or similar, I don't know.

OT: Anyway...

Cant say that I have any "survival" stories. I have always been intelligent enough to have enough money to last me a couple of months tucked away in a savings account.

Me too... I planned out every freakin' penny I was going to spend during my Master's year, gawd, I'm paranoid when it comes to money.

 

[perabalaofmystery]

i happen to be dirt poor and i somehow manage to eat reall good food. coupons are your freinds. though i suppose if i swiched to ramen and such i would have more money to feed my gaming addiction but i think i perfer food

 

[baconbaby299]

I'm currently still in that situation, tins, tins and more tins. We eat them like this, come home, open the cupboard filled with piles of tins, grab a tin, pour the tin into a pan, heat then eat. The labels have become one big blur so now each one simply reads out "tin".

 

[SckizoBoy]

I never planned my spending at all when I was in college. I just had a savings account that I knew I could dip into if for some reason I needed to. I knew how much I was making so I knew around how much I could spend on stuff every week.

There was a reason for my penny-pinching: res hours were waaaaaaaaaaay intense for me to get a job I could hold down, so I was using up money I had saved up the years before... :/

Still, props for prudence one doesn't see often enough.

 

[NegaWiki]

I'm in high school, but I think this counts:

Because our lunch room is being... made, us students must eat two days old turkey and cheese sandwiches and since I have the last lunch period everyday sometimes they run out. I am the only person in my social circle with a car, so in the twenty minute time frame I drove in the lunch hour traffic, bought 4 boxes of pizza and 26 hot wings, drove back, stealthily got past the door monitors since outside food is not allowed, got back to the lunch room, and got bitched at by my friends because the food was "warm, not hot".

We ate Ramen Noodles for two weeks after that, hopefully the kitchen will be finished by next Monday.

 

[Scarim Coral]

While I didn't had budget problem but I wasn't the type to spend my money like a madman.
My main source of meat were from my dad cooking (who usually visit every monthly and yes I know I was lazy). I was out of his meat and instead of buying some premade meat for myself, I spend a week of so having spam as my meat income. While I do like spam but it isn't exactly mouth filling. That wasn't the worst thing I had done.
A few days until I leave my flat, I had very little food. For lunch I decided to eat the rest of the peanut butter with just water. This was a bad idea as I almost end up choking on it (there is a reason why you should have milk with it)!

 

[xmbts]

Does working my entire schedule around the effort of avoiding a stalker count?

 

[ace_of_something]

I can't say I ever put myself in a situation like that monetarily while in college.
My roommate left our dorm room unlocked when I was 18 and someone stole like $500 worth of CD's and his laptop.

I never did replace the Blur part of my collection.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I'm also one of the people who had to live on Ramen for weeks on end.

Good thing I like the instant noodles.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I'm actually alright for money. Not sure how, since I eat enough food for a person twice my size.
People keep leaving dirty dishes lying around, though, so I clean them twice a day and nick sundry food items as a form of payment. Probably a sneaky thing to do, but what the hell. I'm not a maid.