what a nice surprise

I logged on to citibank online because I had to print out a credit card statement in order to receive a reimbursement for a purchase I made a few weeks ago. I knew my account was dwindling because the last time I saw my balance, when I withdrew cash from the ATM I had at least $100... so I expected a hundred-something dollars. Instead, I saw this....





Thoughts running through my head were:
1. Huh?

2. I'm looking at the wrong account

3. Wait, WHAT?

4. Somebody stole my credit card!/I forgot to hit "done" after withdrawing cash and somebody withdrew cash from my account!

Credit card was still in my wallet.
Upon checking account details...

5. Ohhh..... .. . . . . . . . . ok...

Let's split a cab. It'll be cheaper. NOT.

When they raised the subway fare from $2.00 to $2.25 in June, splitting a cab became a slightly better deal.

Starting today, the base cab fare increased from $2.50 to $3.00. NOT OK.

At the rate this is going, Poor College Student soon may not be able to afford the subway nor the cab and will start walking everywhere. At least that will save on gym memberships.

Check it out: http://ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/108143/taxi-fares-to-increase-this-sunday

Tough Choices

Poor college student sometimes has to make some really tough decisions.

Every few months, I get so broke that I have to choose between eating or buying my birth control pills. Just a few days ago, I had to make that decision.

Can you tell me what a poor college student would choose?

Yeah, I did choose that. But let's be real. A baby would make a poor college student even poorer.

Poor College Student has no money or time to buy a between-class snack.

I wanted to get a snack in between classes from the vending machine because I was hungry.

But I only happen to have about twenty cents in my wallet- a dime and a bunch of pennies. I have a debit card, but even if I get cash out from the nearest ATM near me, I will only get twenty dollar bills.

Vending machines do not accept twenty dollar bills.

The cafe where this ATM is located where I could have used cash is probably closed by now, so I have nowhere nearby to use these bills.
I don't have enough time to go somewhere to break my theoretical twenties.


I guess I'm just going to stay hungry until class is over.

Because we haven't posted in ages / semi-useful procrastination

For all those poor college students thinking of putting Google's AdSense onto their blogs - watch out, it could backfire on you one day:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091008/1927006467.shtml

Poor College Student is mad right now

The price of laundry per wash/dry cycle in my dorm has been raised from $1.00 to $1.25.

NOT OK.

Poor College Students should visit Washington DC

All the museums are free! There aren't even any suggested donations!

None of this "Not even some change?" business.

Also, the local buses only cost $1.00 to ride. Plus, services like BoltBus can get you from NYC to DC for $20!

Poor College Student has 99 like-minded bloggers

Apparently Poor College Student is Career-Minded Student too! 100 Best Blogs for Career-Minded Students has 99 other very cool blogs.

Poor College Students Get Tricked By Vendors

Today Epsita and I bought italian ice.

I bought "lemon" and Epsita bought "mango".

I was given lemon-coconut and she was given an orange colored italian ice that had no discernible flavor.

A few days ago, we ordered a cup of sweet corn custard. Excited to try it, we eagerly each tasted a spoonful, but tasted vanilla instead. I brought it back for an exchange.

We tasted the new one. It was still vanilla.

The Number of the Day

Again, I find myself with too much free time. But is this not a blessing? Rather that complaining about my problem, I decided to do something about. And what better thing to do in your free time than make a bit of extra cash using my old vice, poker. I threw $55 on account and was making money within hours. Here are my day end stats since then:

Friday: $80 Profit: $25
Saturday: $150 Profit: $70
Sunday: $84 Profit: -$66
Monday: $51.45 Profit: -$32.55
Tuesday:$84.45 Profit: $23

Good News. Over the first two days I averaged $47.50/day, but alas my actual earnings per day is today's number of the day.

6

I will be playing higher stakes from now on.