After first semester and winter break, you've successfully blown through all of the hard earned money you saved up over the summer. Of course, you're not actually "broke," you have a prepaid meal plan and warm place to stay, but you have no personal spending money –– or if your lucky, a few spare quarters you scavenged under your couch for before heading back to school. To articulate the worry you feel about how you will make it through the next four months without straying from the dining hall for a meal at a local restaurant, turn to Liz Lemon and the gang. Channel the cast of "30 Rock" to help console your worried, penniless soul.
1. Trying to convince yourself you don't need two cups of coffee every day.
2. Questioning everything the dining hall serves and craving your favorite dish from that restaurant down the street.
3. Window shopping online without the gratification of actually ordering something.
4. Finding a $10 bill in a pair of pants you left at school over break.
5. Deciding what's worth spending your precious last dollars on.
6. Embracing the cheap, anti-social lifestyle.
7. Envying your friends' much more fruitful campus jobs when they say they're going to the mall.
8. Getting jealous of people who eat off campus all the time.
9. Pretending you're enjoying the freedom of college when you really just want a home cooked meal.
10. Regretting most of the stuff you wasted your money on last semester.
11. Realizing you're being over dramatic.
Everything is fine, and you'll be OK without a latte every day. Just remember, we're lucky to be privileged enough to attend college –– with or without a little extra dough in our bank accounts.