^hahah so true.
college students do live on small budgets, but one small difference is that a lot of them have rich(ish) families. so, when push came to shove, they'd have a source of money for help. One of my roommates lived broke as fuck while working part time yet his grandparents were millionaires. But they didn't give him shit, cause that's how you teach the value of hard work and discipline in the states, yo!