Rant of the Day: Do you know any college kids who can.....

[Darth_Kitten]

lay out 1000 bucks for new clothes?

When I went to school I made due on no new clothes, chicken noodle soup and donuts. :shrug:

Was I odd, or are times a changin' and not carrying me along? :hug: :(

[TimeChaser]

1. I just moved to college last week

A few new clothes, but mostly old stuff.

[flvegan]

2. When I was in college, I knew students like that.

They either:
1. Worked very hard at a job, and lived frugally while enjoying fashion as the priority for them;
2. Were strippers;
3. Had matching gold cards (matching, meaning, matched mom's/dad's;
4. Sold dope;
5. Two words: trust fund.

Otherwise, it was ramen noodles and Natural Light.

[sasquatch]

10. Ahh...Strippers

:silly:

[deadparrot]

3. I'm at college...

the only time I shop is at the end of the season when everything's on clearance.

Then again, I'm going to a state school on a really nice scholarship, so it's not like there's a $40,000 price tag to deal with.

[WindRavenX]

4. sadly, yes

BC has a lot of rich fuckin' bitches.

My back to school clothes:

-38$ pink Converse sneakers
-1 pair of jeans
-1 pair of cord. jeans
-6 pairs of socks

Total: maybe 100. This was the first bunch of clothes I bought for over a year.

Meanwhile, I see everyone on campus decked out in Lacoste, J.Crew...you know.

The only thing that I love is my lucky denium jacket with all my liberal pins :hi:

[Mikimouse]

6. But...can we take you seriously?

You are, after all, a heathen Yankee fan working as a mole in Redsoxland.

[WindRavenX]

7. funny thing...

I can't talk politics with the Yankee fans here (coz they're Republicans) and I can't talk sports with the Sox fans here (duh).

So hee :evilgrin:

[Mikimouse]

8. Just having a bit of fun at your expense...Hope all is well at my old

favorite school. Please bow toward Lyons Hall for me as you go by.

[WindRavenX]

13. will do

:hi:

BTW, I'm on the Gay Leadership Council- we'll make BC semi-civilized for our queer friends yet! :D

[Mikimouse]

14. Extremely cool! If there was a smiley tipping the hat to you...

I would insert it here.:toast:

[Zomby Woof]

17. That's fitting

As I have said repeatedly, the Yankees ARE the Republican right-wing. They are the Pentagon, and General Motors.

It saddens me when I see liberals and Democrats root for the bad guys. It's like rooting for Rumsfeld!

[WindRavenX]

21. baseball is my escape dude

Just let me be happy.

[Igel]

5. I did. At UCLA.

Strongly bimodal distribution of parental incomes.

One guy I knew spent his summer in South America; I asked if it was some sort of service thing, and he said no, vacation. Beaches. Chile, Brazil, Argentina. Frat-boy, dem. His job was student government and being in the Bruin dems. We got along well when I was in student government.

I couldn't afford a car; I rode my bicycle to and from campus, ate lots of beans and cheap cheese, and saved money by only riding the bus when it rained. My job was as part-time bookkeeper or computer tech, and I left school with massive loans.

Then there was the progressive 'of color' of great social conscience. He complained to his parents that his car didn't get him through LA traffic well enough. The response: A brand new Ford SUV. His mother was a lawyer in SF, father was dentist (cosmetic, mostly). They paid the college fees that his grants didn't cover; in addition to known needs, he got a $1000 or so per month for incidentals. Otherwise, his job was being an activist. He and I got along poorly: I lacked the proper perspective on what it meant to have to work to pay for tuition, and on being poor in LA.

[DBoon]

9. Sounds like my life at UCI 25 years ago

Minus student loans, as believe it or not you didn't need them, UC wasa pretyy cheap in terms of tuition.

great bargains at thrift shops in Santa Ana.

Lots of cheap shots by kids with money about why I didn't have a car/new clothes/vacations.

Being rich wouldn't be so bad is it didn't mean being an asshole too many times

[Richardo]

20. Another Bruin in Houston? Boss!

BA '78; PoliSci. :hi: igil

I had much the same story - lived in the dorms and on financial aid. Finally got a P/T job in my soph/junior years to subsidize my existence. VERY public school.

[Fenris]

11. Not at my school.

I assume there are some at UT.

:evilgrin:

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I sure as hell can't

And even if I could, I wouldn't.

[Arkana]

15. The times they are a' changin'.

I moved in today--in fact, I'm in my dorm room, using my beloved T-1 connection instead of crapass dialup--and my room had a sink in it! I was so happy, I did a little dance.

[Igel]

16. A sink in the room.

Sigh. Nirvana.

Visited a friend at CalTech once. Sinks in the dorm rooms. Permission to paint; build lofts.

I said how nice having a sink in the dorm room was as I filled up a glass with water. I should have expected his answer, but silly me. "Yeah ... it's really great when you're drunk and can't make it down the hall to piss."

[underpants]

18. "Pell grant? I ATE BEANS FOR A WHOLE SEMESTER!!"

I had the misfortune of mentioning to my wife that one semester I got $300 or so in aid (part of the loan package) from a Pell Grant.


She really did bust her ass when she went back to school. I used at least some of that money to play golf (I did at least once) with my buddies.

She also was once so tired and so busy studying that when she got home with her McD's hamburger and relized it didn't have any meat in it she ate it anyway-no time to go back and complain.

[mcar]

19. We just moved my son to college

with his clothes from high school, plus a new pair of sneakers and a few new shirts. I figured with what we're paying for tuition, plus the cost of his graduation-gift laptop, that he doesn't need new school clothes.

He worked all summer and is doing work study at the school so if he needs something, he can pretty much get it himself.

I lived at home for college; worked the entire four years. My parents paid my tuition, I covered books, clothes and beer. }(

[tigereye]

23. gosh- it makes me curious how people pay for tuition

let alone all the perks and goodies the marketers think the college dorm room should have. Apparently the new thing is to have a college dorm with all the interior designer fetishes! per the NYT.

I lived in a dorm freshman year with 3 other women and then I transferred to another urban school and moved to a group house because it was cheaper and one year of dorm life was plenty. We were lucky to have one of those hotpots in the dorm, we certainly didn't have microwaves and TVs and all the other gadgets. This was way before computers and the Internet. I was lucky to get some new clothes and sheets!

I was in Target with my elem. age kid two weeks ago and we were walking by all the college stuff, including TVs, bookcases, etc. and he told me he wanted a TV in his room. Poor kid. He got to hear me rant about how little we had when I was in college and how it was highly unlikely that he would ever have a TV in his room! ;)

[xmas74]

22. I couldn't.

I was a scholarship kid. My clothes in high school came from thrift so you know that they were the same in college. I can remember getting nasty looks in the dorms from the "rich girls" all the time. And I worked through school so I was looked down at for that reason also.
Surprisingly, I was approached by two sororities to pledge. The president of one was a poli sci major and had heard me debate. The other sorority (the one I joined) invited me after the pledge chair saw me at a party (she said that I had a good sense of fashion and that I had alot of attention from the guys). I embroidered my letters and did the same for some of the other girls. The best part was once I moved into the house everyone loaned everyone else their clothes. For fees I had a great room (w/ one room mate instead of 4) and a ton of clothes that I could borrow.