Sophia Hotung
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Budgeting sounds easy enough, but that holy trinity of extortionate New York prices, the inevitable busyness of college, and the fact that keeping control of random expenses is like a game of Whack-a-Mole will leave both your wallet and your soul empty soon enough.
We’ve all been there. You’ve got a paper due in three days, and you just keep on getting distracted by your cozy blankets, that new Netflix show, or other less important work. Next thing you know, you have to crank out a 10-page paper in six hours. We get it, you basically major in procrastination.
Ah, securing an internship. We feel the struggle of figuring out your first summer as a college student. :')
Packing clothes for college in NYC presents a whole host of problems. First off, NYC weather is both blizzard-freezing and sweltering hot. Secondly, NYC is infamous for its lack of storage space, so don't even think you can have hoards of trench coats or something. Thirdly, once you start living in NYC, there is a general self-imposed feeling that you need to look vaguely trendy almost all the time. Or, as incoming first-year Daniella put it...
So you're a fresh-eyed, first-year, international student who's about to spend the next four years in a country that allegedly runs on a doughnut company and spells "doughnut" as "donut."
You may be expecting your first-year roommate to be your college soulmate.