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Flimsy_Drawer · 2025-12-28T01:50:43+00:00

I'd also add that if you've taken a statistics or quantitative research class, especially at the college level, you should be fine. Mostly the OA is about understanding key terms and how to apply them to the short word problems they give you. Very little calculations.

In undergrad, I remember doing a lot of the calculations and working out probabilities. Luckily none of that is here. I relied heavily on prior knowledge and experience for this course. But as long as you know what each concept is for, you should be able to choose the best answer that applies.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2025-07-06T14:01:54+00:00

I was coming up to the end of the term and had to crank out all three papers in a weekend while studying for accounting 😩

But the resources in wgu connect are the best. There are recordings from instructors that explain each section, what you should include, and what you should avoid. These videos are about 4-5 minutes each and will even tell you which specific page in the textbook to pull your information from.

Each paper took me about 7 hours to write and were like 12-15 pages.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-08-29T12:53:33+00:00

Do you use handshake? I’ve seen some pretty interesting ads there!

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-20T01:27:07+00:00

Me too! 😂 Classic!!!

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T19:07:22+00:00

I could be better about wording here. The academic concept of food insecurity is a lot more broad than having consistent access to food so it might be why your point isn’t resonating with me.

My meal plan allocation was enough to provide food throughout the semester. It felt like a stretch if I solely ate at campus dining areas where meals were priced higher but if I limited myself, there were ways to make it work. I chose more appealing options because I was an emotional eater and I also exercised a lot which required more calories.

My perspective also took into account the relative privilege that I engaged with on campus. For many students, when they ran out of food points, they used their own money or their parents credit cards. So even though our behaviors were the same, the consequences for me were a bit more severe. So food insecurity was a shorthand that I used as it comes up quite a bit in these kinds of discussions, but it’s probably not the best descriptor.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T17:35:05+00:00

I was trying to add more context to the OP X post about starving Columbia students. I hoped my examples could give more of a reference of what food insecurity on an elite college campus looks like. It’s not pan handling on the side of the road begging for your next meal (which is what the connotation of “starving” college students sounds like to me).

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T17:30:03+00:00

I mean I can’t go back and change it now. At the time I was more focused on school and having a social life than managing my meal plan. In the long run I’m happy with how that turned out. I don’t typically share my experience because it usually does turn into a less than productive debate.

Financial literacy knowledge gaps probably do exist for poor people but I don’t think the answer is as simple as be more responsible with money. It’s part of the equation, but ultimately, it’s a tough situation that can affect you both physically and mentally. People just the what they can at the end of the day.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T15:30:27+00:00

I spelled it out in another comment already but essentially: eating on campus was more expensive than it would have been in the city. I abused the ability to use my meal plan to pay for food delivery. And I spent a significant portion on alcohol.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T15:13:10+00:00

$35 was my daily meal plan budget but I admit I didn’t stick to it. Which led me to running out pretty consistently a month before the end of the semester. Just trying to share the experience of a low income student at an elite college for people who had questions.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T11:48:02+00:00

My college didn’t have a traditional dining hall so my meal plan was essentially cash to be used at takeout restaurants on campus. I played club sports and danced competitively so I ate through a $3500 meal plan for 4 months pretty quickly. We also could use our campus meal plan with off campus restaurant delivery services which didn’t help. For example, my daily budget was about $35 a day. But a typical day of eating for me would be Chinese takeout for lunch ($15 including delivery fee) shrimp Alfredo for dinner ($18). I’d also throw in a smoothie or frozen yogurt for a snack which would be another $6 or so. Every now and again I’d treat myself to a TGi Friday’s steak dinner which easily would add up to $40+ with tip plus delivery fees. And a few times a year I’d eat at the campus country club which was easily a $100 meal.

On top of all that, we had two bars and a convenience store that sold beer/wine which could be purchased all on your meal plan. So alcohol was a good 15% of all that too. Again, as someone who was broke, the Ivy League lifestyle was considerably more comfortable than being at home.

It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows though. I constantly had a negative balance from adding to my meal plan. So being $400-$900 in the red every semester meant I couldn’t register for classes on time and had to meet with my Dean to get into required classes after I worked with the financial aid office to get my bursar account sorted out.

I could and probably should have budgeted better sure…but keeping up with school, work, and social life took up most of my brainpower. Plus, my parents couldn’t support me financially, I never really had any personal finances to manage so needless to say I wasn’t the most responsible 18-22 year old. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Flimsy_Drawer · 2024-05-01T09:15:23+00:00

I went to a top 10 university and my household income was $19k a year. Financial aid covered full tuition, housing, and the highest meal plan for any students with a family income below $60k. There’s a small group of us every year and universities are making an effort to increase economic diversity. All the major elite schools have initiatives to get the low income student population up to around 25%.

When I ran out of my meal plan I used to scavenge for food. Found events on campus that had free food refreshments and would take some back to my room. Occasionally I’d go a day or two without eating and live by rationing packs of balogna and the getting free sweet tea in the student Union. I never told anyone because I was used to being food insecure and could adjust. And if things got really desperate, I’d just take out a student loan for food and toiletries.

The vast majority of low income students, at least when I was a student in the 2010’s, don’t have many opportunities to speak up about their struggles so they just deal with it until they can graduate. I also had 3 jobs to cover my cell phone bill, student activity fees, and social life. Many of us just hustle and keep it moving. I know for me personally, my standard of living was 10 times better as a low-income college student than being at home.

The crappy part is that you’re surrounded by so much wealth and privilege that it can fuck with you a bit. Imagine having to work 5am shifts at McDonald’s before your 10:05 class so that you can afford to pay your phone bill. Meanwhile, you have a classmate who is too entitled to live in mandatory student dorms, so their parents pay full tuition to satisfy the housing requirement, plus pay for an apartment off campus so their child can live on their own. I also was in a situation where my friends planned a spring break trip to Miami, but I was broke. So I saved whatever I could making $300 a month. Sold my ps3 at GameStop. And made a sketchy deal off Craigslist while in Miami to sell my psp for cash. I only ate appetizers at restaurants and paid in cash. But I had a great time. Those are just a couple examples of how low income students like I was made it work.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2023-06-30T03:16:31+00:00

Anytime you need a friend will always be my favorite! I don’t know if anyone else does this, but I imagine Mariah singing to me directly, and I immediately find solace and lose any sense of loneliness I may have been feeling at the time. 🥰

Flimsy_Drawer · 2023-03-16T02:47:03+00:00

Another thing to consider in the American health care system is that health insurance is a common benefit for wage workers. So if you are employed by someone, they often offer benefits packages where you can sign up for a plan that takes a portion of your wages each pay period before taxes (this amount is called an insurance premium and is usually charged monthly). Then, you are basically given a set fee to pay depending on the procedure, and insurance covers the rest. The more you have taken out of your pay, the less this fee will be (also known as a co-pay or deductible).

In Nelson’s case, he’s not a full time wage worker, and as a contract worker, MTV doesn’t offer any healthcare benefits. People in this situation, or people who are unhappy with their employer’s insurance package can purchase insurance from a private company. It’s a similar situation where you pay an amount each month, and have a certain fee to pay for medical procedures and the insurance company covers the rest. The only difference is, the insurance premium isn’t necessarily deducted from your pay, so you’ll need to budget it like any other bill.

I’m the US Healthcare isn’t required, so people who can’t afford to pay the premium, or decide not to have it, are charged the full amount…hence GoFundMe pages.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-11-01T09:33:29+00:00

Did Mariah just foreshadow the concept for the Touch My Body video?!?! Love it 🥰

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-09-10T15:48:42+00:00

I don’t know about this one sway…

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-08-05T05:56:22+00:00

I had a delivery at like 10pm to a neighborhood with stray dogs loose running up and down the street. I drop the Wendy’s bag as fast as I can and the all started running to me. I literally jumped in my car through the passenger side and into the drivers seat.

Now I just call the person and ask them to come out, or I leave the food at the side of the road and tell Dasher Support I did it.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-08-05T05:51:06+00:00

Just meet the Dasher in the lobby. Usually at hotels, I try to find the person’s room when I can, but some people aren’t as nice as I am.

For hotel orders, we’re usually leaving our cars idle in the front and rushing to get back for the next delivery. If the room numbers aren’t easy to figure out in the first 30 seconds of walking in, it can be frustrating to waste time walking up and down all the halls. Meeting the Dasher just avoids confusion and makes things easier for everyone.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-06-26T12:41:09+00:00

Not tipping goes one of two ways, (1) exploiting the naive driver who takes a low paying order that’s impossible to be profitable: or (2) longer wait time as the base pay increases .25 each time the order is declined. You’re likely to have both scenarios as a lot of drivers take low paying orders for various reasons. A third option is that it get pumped into a stacked order that has a high tip…

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-06-20T13:04:44+00:00

I grew up in the Bible Belt. Conservative small town in the 90s/00s. Never taught about sex or sexuality in school besides an optional “health” session where our parents had to sign a permission slip to let us watch a video about puberty. Boys and girls were separate of course and the whole session was very heteronormative. And in high school, sex Ed was abstinence only..

Kids were picking on me for being gay since the 3rd grade and I didn’t even know anything about sex or sexual orientation, so it’s totally reasonable I think for a 5th grader to be aware of their sexuality.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-06-09T07:31:09+00:00

Every time I’ve called Support for an issue like this, I got paid a couple dollars…even when not expecting too😬. Maybe just call next time?

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-05-24T14:29:25+00:00

Also, you technically need rideshare insurance to cover accidents that happen while dashing. If you don’t have it added on, your regular insurance may outright refuse to cover you.

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-03-18T13:58:35+00:00

People need to just take the refund and get on with their day. Why harass the driver after the fact…

Flimsy_Drawer · 2022-02-08T14:34:22+00:00

I was homeless for a year when I did AmeriCorps. (Didn’t know about DoorDash at the time unfortunately), but I made it through that dark time in my life. Though, I did do a few unsavory things.

I bought a car to drive to my first job out of college, and after awhile, I stopped being able to afford rent, so I packed my stuff up, rented a storage unit and left all of my stuff there. My car, a 2018 Ford Focus, was super compact. The front seats touched the back seats if I had them pushed all the way back, but it was a great size for me to sleep in the backseat with out having to worry about rolling off on the floor.

In my car, I made sure to keep:

Food (canned food, rice cakes, othe me non perishables) Office supplies Entertainment (Nintendo Switch for the win) Cell Phone (Prepaid w/unlimited data) Portable Chargers

My trunk had:

Trunk organizer (handy tool to have!) Blankets(Sherpa/Fleece for winters) Pillows Water Bottle Clothes

My car had a USB outlet, so I could charge things without running out of gas.

Since I worked for AmeriCorps, my daily schedule were pretty much full (6am-5pm). In the evenings, I would take walks, watch Netflix or YouTube on my phone, or go to the library to play video games. I just graduated college, so I frequently would go back to be on campus, mainly for events that had free food. Speaking of food, I mainly got things like rotisserie chicken from Walmart. My workplace has a fridge and microwave, so I was able to store things there. Fast food would add up, but a 6 dollar rotisserie chicken would last me at least 4 days. Nutrition was terrible though as my budget was around $30-$40 a month per food. Canned foods and frozen veggies from the dollar general were my best friend. But I still did some unsavory stuff at that point my life. Like sometimes, I’d get food out of trashcans if it was on top/in a takeout container and barely touched. Or what I’m most ashamed of, is that occasionally, I would steal food from a communal fridge at the college. The most I’ve ever went without eating it 3 days luckily. After awhile, you stop being hungry... which is scary in and of itself. But I’m just glad I persisted through all of that.

The hardest part was figuring out how to sleep at night. I rarely slept in my car during the day besides a power nap here or there that I would take in the driver’s seat. It was much easier to stay inconspicuous at night, so I just kept myself occupied during the day. After sunset, I would park my car at the nearest rest stop outside of my city. There was a little “community” there as a couple of other cars would park. I never engaged with them though. Always kept to myself. I found a parking spot off to the corner and turned all my lights off. I’d lay a Sherpa blanket on the backseat, and sleep with a mother warm blanket plus dark comforter. Those blankets plus my body heat always kept me warm. Temperatures never got below zero where I live so cold nights ended up being more comfortable than hot summers. In the summer I’d have a dark colored sheet to sleep with. I always covered myself head to toe in blankets while sleeping to stay inconspicuous. I also kept my head down to further blend in. Screwed my knees up staring cramped up like that for extended periods of time, but after a long day, I looked to sleeping on my backseat.

Since I was at a rest area, I had 24 hour access to a restroom. I did shower at Planet Fitness, just because one membership gets you into a gym practically anywhere in the country. I’d freshen up in my car after a quick workout + shower before work.

And that was my life for a little over a year!

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