Learn To Pack Like a Pro: Backpacking Tips For Students

Are you planning to take a backpacking trip around the country?  Then you must learn how to pack small if want to live for the chaos of travelling in budget as a college student. Imagine the great many benefits of chasing down your train with a small backpack that may leave unapologetically on time (for a change). With a light luggage you will be able to squeeze into (or climb on top of) the only train to the village in Rajasthan.

Sometimes travelling in India can get even crazier, a time may come when you may need to make an emergency stop at the police station to bail your tour guide out of jail! In such circumstances you will need small luggage to save you and your fellow travel mates and cram them in a small fishing boat as your scheduled ferry leaves, to eventually splash your way to the island hotel where you can watch the sunset while sipping margaritas on time.

Dining In or Eating out? Which is Right for Today's Youth

As college students, eating out is often the only option you have. And the moment you enter that economic Chinese place that boasts of shabby-chic (well mostly shabby than chic), near your apartment or hostel, the smell of honey chilli chicken whooshes into your nostrils and makes you drool incessantly. Soon you forget all your dietary goals and budget constraints and dive straight in, to over-ordering a meal fit for an entire family of four. And while you are feeling guilty munching on sticky chicken wings that are leaving behind a sinful trail of sauce; you reflect on your culinary mutiny and secretly plan to cut short your stationery budget of pens to make up for this deliberate slip up. 

You begin to feel like an addict gone out of control who simply cannot justify their failure to meet dietary limits, is it just stress eating or is this happy eating?!  Soon the nightmarish thoughts of you asking for pants of waist-size ‘bear and Chinese food’ come to your mind and leave you shaken as you feel your bulging tummy, tugging to the extreme stretches of your shirt/top. 

3 Tips for Students to Balance Money and Expenses

With every passing phase of your college life, saving up is becoming difficult. Especially, when the splurge of money on educational requirements is more balancing those shopping bills, night outs and parties is too difficult. Moreover, you are no economic or accountant student taking care of the expenses in a planned manner. Still, every month end has seen you vow on curtailing on movies, restaurants and others.  This July was of no difference when your mother screamed louder on doing something fruitful by waving off those “silly hangouts”. 

Also such fights would leave you upset and the mature you feel poor for the doting mother at heart. We can empathise; it’s like getting sandwiched between your resolution and the wish to watch Huge Jackman perform in “X-Men”. All of these make you the resolution breaker. Though not intentional, but maybe you don’t budget it right. Perhaps a few tips can help you save some pennies in the end of your month.