Being A Stroke College Student

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College is often the best time in a person's life. It is a time to really pursue goals, dreams, learn, and make new friends. It is also a time for Norwich students such as myself, to learn some valuable financial lessons. One of those is slowly coming to turns for me and my friends.
Being a broke college student, really doesn’t classify as a Norwich University problem, but really as a whole college-wide problems for many students. The most frustrating thing to use students is being dead broke. Past due homework, pop quizzes, and exams don’t even compare to being a dead broke college student. Being broke is like having a car with no gas. Your special meals are ramen noodles, crackers with cheese, deciding whether it is a wise chose to eat out
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The whole view of college is that we are attending in order to further our education so we can get a higher paying jobs that will ease our financial torture. Most students at Norwich have to work while attending, in order to live, they have the most worries about money. Sure they do have a little cash in their pockets, but not enough to do what the normal college is doing on a day to day basis. So with working and not having an extra time to study, some grades might suffer just adding to that pile of frustrations. College prepares us for the real world, and one of that life lesson is surviving without money or very little. That in all makes us scavengers in our own way, we are always hopping at any opportunity to get free stuff. Many students at Norwich falling into the traps that's usually is not a problem that we can control, here are the few reasons why students at Norwich are going to be broke the four years in college.
Most college students come from either a middle-class family or a low class, those students of the lower income families get their tuition paid for by financial aid, but many students of the middle class are either stuck in a position where they either make too much money to receive these aids, yet don’t have the money to pay for the price of a college education. there those that do go to college have little money left over to cover any expense

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