...you and your roommate seriously consider bringing her laundry hamper (which has wheels) to CVS with you so you can get everything back to your dorm without taking the car. ...your debit card gets declined. At Dollar General. Again. ...the CD drive of your laptop is being held shut with duct tape. Come on, admit it, college students and grads. You've all had a "ghetto" moment during your college career. Share it here.
I duct taped my shoe once when it broke at college. I bring duct tape, glue and plasters everywhwre. I'm using my bag from last year a I cant afford a new one. its held together with hot glue, duct tape and hand stitching.
Hearkening back to my sophomore year in undergrad in 2009 AD.... "You know you're ghetto college when you have inny bitty fruit flies that are incubating in your roommate's trash can (that reeks of stale beer) and then spreading their unwelcome suzerainty to the rest of the dorm unit." "You know you're ghetto college when your 6'4" varsity athlete roommate next door brings back shy, pimpled midget-sized girls to his place, only to ensue in the loudest and most shrill sexual moans imaginable."
- My housemates and I have a flyswatter made out of cardboard and a coat hanger - A friend and I asked our (then new) next door neighbours if we could take the couch they were throwing away by the side of the road... as we were moving into our house. xD
- The center console of my car was torn by dogs three years ago and I never replaced it. - I have a bunch of used notebooks saved that I tear the blank sheets out of when I need one. - My senior project's server is a eleven year old Pentium 3 Dell Dimension 2100, kept current with a USB HDD, Debian, and a Wifi adapter.
You forget the last "real" meal you ate... I think I've been getting by on cereal alone for a week or so now lol.
...you take more than one free sample deodorant stick from the campus bathrooms, even if you don't like the scent all that much, because you ran out that morning. ...you've gone to organization informationals for the free food. ...you're actually not lying when you say you have no change to give to the Drag Rats (what the homeless guys who hang out on Guadalupe Street a.k.a. The Drag are called). ...you study in a coffee shop all day with just a cup of water. This is happening as I type this. ...you make a meal out of a free frozen yogurt promotional. ...your favorite decoration in your room is a beat up detour sign you found unused at the edge of a construction site.
...you've gone to organization informationals for the free pens and paper. ...you've isolated your windows and doors and some cracks in walls with towels and such to keep the cold out. ...you have to go to sport facilities to take a shower, because your bathroom hasn't had running water for a few weeks. ...you've lived for weeks on frozen bread left over after a camping weekend (no-one else was interested in taking it ). College is such fun sometimes :dry:
when you think about bringing your londary hamper on wheels to cvs to carry all your stuff back bc you cant drive yet.
Another one I forgot to add: When you bring all your stuff to the dining facility and camp out all day because you want to make the $8 you spent to get in there worth it (I do this all the time)
You know you're college ghetto when...you need to refill your water bottle and there's no nearby water fountain, so you just use the water faucet from the bathroom instead. ... Okay, fine. I commute. AND I'm too cheap to buy another water bottle.
when you can't afford to live on campus so you go to the college which is easiest to commute to from home by way of the bus and is cheap.
