New York is the city that never sleeps which basically means you can do anything at any time. There is literally always something to do. This is great for people with an unlimited credit card balance or real jobs but some, like us still struggling college students, have to pick and choose their activities. Visiting New York on that broke girl status is perfectly okay, but you will have a lot of encounters like these:

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1. The Subway.

The subway is a must when taxi cabs are charging you to sit in traffic. By the time your metro card is almost gone, your indecent subway behavior tolerance has reached its capacity.

2. Happy Hour.

When you have to explain why you keep only picking the restaurants with BOGO no matter the sketchy location.

3. Eating street food for all your meals.

When the hotdog vendor recognizes you because your budgeting priority list goes: drinking, activities involving drinking, shopping, and then food.

4. Looking at menus everywhere.

If the bun on my cheeseburger doesn't look like Jesus so I can sell it on eBay, then it's not work $30. Same goes for the $10 drink the size of a teaspoon.

5. Pretending you are down for anything.

Fine is basically code red for "we need to get the hell out of here." If you ask if I am okay with walking ten blocks home and I say I'm fine, it really means that my shoes are rapidly filling with my blood and if we don't Uber I'm calling 911.

6. Trying to get into clubs like:

When the line is five miles long and you try to impress the bouncers into letting you into the club. My version is when the bouncer and I finally make eye contact, my heel snaps and I take a nose dive to the pavement (probably landing in some unmentionables).

7. The wrong neighborhoods are the best neighborhoods.

There are a lot of places that are known as off limits, however, low on cash means partaking in some sketchy activities. So what if it smells like urine and there's a 99% chance the doors lock from the outside, the sign says free!