College is tough. You have to leave your mommy and daddy for the first time, and sometimes they even stop giving you weekly allowances. Yikes! That backpacking trick around Europe you'll be taking this summer? You might only get to go for five weeks instead of two months. Yowza! If you're in college, I'm sure you know the struggles of being a broke college student all too well. Here are some super trendy things all us gals who identify as "broke college students" can relate to!
1. Carrying books around in the same torn backpack you had last semester, broken straps and all.
2. Not doing laundry because you only have enough money for when you desperately need it.
3. Using your own three, often two figure bank account to purchase text books.
Nothing like a good ol' $200 biology text book you can't afford to make you feel trendy as all hell!
4. Having to dip into your personal savings to be able to afford said text books.
5. Having to skip out on some textbooks entirely because they cost literally your entire bank account and deciding to suffer the consequences.
6. Sitting out on dinner plans because your friends' idea of cheap is still a good chunk of your bank account.
7. Missing out on plans in general because surprisingly enough, paying for a Bieber bus to the city as well as for overpriced Broadway tickets isn't feasible for some people.
8. Neither is even just going to the movies sometimes.
9. Not being able to live with your friends because you can't afford to live anywhere, but a residence hall.
10. Not even being able to live alone because it costs extra to do so.
11. Not being able to live on campus at all and being forced to commute to a nearby college.
12. Feeling horrible about having to ask your parents to pay for a school-related fee with money you don't have and you're sure they don't have either.
13. Not being able to attend college to begin with.
Hey, at least you get to be rockin' and rollin with the likes of ol' Ronald over here for the rest of your life!
Wait, what? You're saying you can't relate to any of this? Your idea of being "broke" is having to buy the purse that's on sale for $199 instead of the one with an extra sparkle on it for $300? You don't know what it's like to genuinely fear that you won't be able to come back next semester because you won't be able to afford it? If that's the case, then congratulations! You're not broke! Maybe it's about time you stop referring to yourself as such as if it's the trendy thing to do. It's not. Good day.
