Hanging in there
I’m still hanging in there and trying to adjust to the life of living on my own (or more like with a couple of friends). I thought last year was the last of learning to adjust to new environments like the dorm, college classes, campus, etc. But I guess this year it’s twice as hard and not as much fun. Now I live in an apartment I have to think about furniture, rent, bills, BILLS, and BILLS. Okay, if I haven’t gotten the point across and clear, bills are a big whammy.
It’s amazing how smiles turn into frowns when it comes to situation of money. I think money is nothing but a problem. It’s true isn’t it? When we don’t have money we spend hours looking at which new gizmos and latest fashion we can go buy after we get our paycheck. And when we do have money, we have a problem to where we should buy our gizmos and latest fashion at the best value. Or is all this just me?
Let’s not talk about things we do need (need vs. wants!) and talk about the things we do. We need a bare minimum of a place to stay, something to wear, food to eat, water to drink, running water, electricity and gas, and what else? Just the bare minimum ends up costing a whole lot. As a college student living with some finanical aid and $8.50 an hour job who only gets around 20 hours a week just isn’t enough. Well it would be enough in most cities, but here I live in Irvine. You know, Orange County’s Irvine. Irvine is ranked to be one of the most expensive living cost cities out there. Hello! Which part of “I am a college student” didn’t anyone understand?! I don’t have a choice but to live in Irvine because I go to school here. Budget cuts affecting the school isn’t helping much neither.
So what’s after college? I spend thousands of dollars living in a city I can not afford, go to a school and get an education I could of gotten elsewhere and spend the rest of my life as a teacher – bitter and angry about my college years. It’s college. I WANT to have a real college experience. I’m sick of sitting here all day and studying and/or working. I need to stop complaining and DO something about it. But I can’t all in all. Why? Because I’m too busy working and studying. I need to stop this cycle, quick!
August 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm 1
aw, i’m sure you will find a way out of it. yeah, college students are known to be poor, but a lot of them still manage to have fun – and you’ll get through this rut soon, somehow. i’m sure you’re pretty good at managing your money already, but maybe you need to make a list of necessities that you must pay and then everything else should be below it? prioritizing stuff like that always helps me. you can probably hold off on shopping for clothes and etc. in exchange for going out to the movies or something… just don’t end up doing all of that at once, haha, or your paycheck will be gone super fast. also, study hard in college since it’s supposed to be an investment! for all the mad amounts of money you’re paying for this education, you’ll get a very good and stable job so you don’t have to live out the rest of your life like this. don’t worry, you’ll find a way!