Big Spender

Recently, I have noticed a disturbing trend in my daily routine. What happens is I wake up, go to class and stuff, eat dinner, relax, then get hungry again at around 12:30 am. Being me, I cannot stand being hungry. I just get so I really can't think about anything except food. So I end up ordering some delivery or making the ten minute walk to McDonalds and getting something there. Ta da! No more hunger. Once in a while, this is fine. It makes me feel good, I get a little exercise walking over there, everything is fine.

However, lately I have been doing this a lot. I probably spent around 30 dollars doing this this past week. If I keep this up, I'll have spent around 200 dollars by the end of the semester. In my opinion, this is a lot of money to spend on extra food every week. It's not like I don't have time to eat. Dining halls are open from like 7 am to 8 pm (or something similar), serving delicious buffets of food. I just end up getting hungry after they close.

Now I am a college student (obviously) and I have 0 income. For me, spending hundreds of dollars on snacks = BAD. What can I do about this? I have come up with two solutions. First, I have a 15 meal plan but end up eating only around 12 times a week. I could take those extra meals and get On The Go to tide me over when I am hungry. This works, except that most of the non-perishable food that they have at On The Go isn't very filling and would not help me much if I was really hungry. The other thing I could do is go to sleep earlier. This would solve my sleep deprivation problems and my late night snack problem in one fell swoop. The problem with this is that I just don't get tired earlier. I'm really a night person. I'm working on it though. I havent gone to bed later than 2 am this whole week : ) So to bring my rambling to a close, try and go to sleep earlier. It will not only help you in school, it will save you a lot of money in late night deliveries.