What is the best recipe for dinner under $25?

Okay, so since we are all college students and I'm sure we've all cooked at one point or another, I'd like to know what you think the best dinner under $25 is. The whole meal has to be under $25 and should feed at least one, but if you can make it for more then all the better!!

Comment on the bottom of this blog post and let me know what you think!

My idea is chicken and pasta with sundried tomatoes, olives, zucchini and broccoli, which I will make and post a recipe with pictures about at some point in the future.

My First Love Affair...

is still continuing and it's with a city- Manhattan.

I've been to 9 different countries and a bunch of different cities and yet one city still remains my favorite. It is a City that is known to me as The City. So many shows, movies etc. are based here and it's where, at least in my opinion, dreams come true. It's the only place in the world where you can be in Italy and China at the same time (thanks of course to the proximity of Little Italy and Chinatown), there's great museums and restaurants and nightlife and SHOPPING, oh the shopping. I love shopping almost as much as I love food and chocolate, so for me living in New York has always been a luxury.

Of course the other cities are nice too, they just aren't My City.

A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do...

So it's currently 2:43 p.m. and I am sitting at my desk at 135 W 50th Street NY NY and am enjoying the two outrageously expensive chocolate covered strawberries that I just bought at Godiva. That's right I just spent $4.25 each on dark chocolate strawberry goodness and am quite satisified with myself. Let me first explain why I did this (and also attempt to show that I am not COMPLETELY obsessed with food-- okay maybe I am a little bit obsessed with food, but I'm also obsessed with the gym soooo that makes up for it ;) ) After I got off the Metro North this morning- during which the conductor said "hold on to your hats" which doesn't exactly make me confident about the man transporting me to and from NYC, but that of course is another story- I happily jumped on the smelly shuttle and then the 1 train (only a true new yorker would use the words "happily" and "smelly subway" in the same sentence) (and yes I am a true new yorker which is definitely another post in and of itself) to get off at 50th street and 7th avenue where I found myself face to face with GODIVA- and ultimately decided that it was something I must eat today. Soooo after having oatmeal and salad for breakfast and lunch respectively, I jogged down to the place where dreams come true and attempted to order 6 and then silently thanked my lucky stars as I found out that 6 would cost $42 and thankfully I only had a $20 so therefore would be able to fit into my skinny jeans on the way home =) and yayaya I ate some strawberries today, but choose dark chocolate as it has quite an amazing amount of healing powers, unless that's just a crock that some woman wrote out of her basement to make herself feel better about succumbing to Godiva...

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Living On Campus vs. Living Off Campus

Okay so we all know that living on campus entitles us to a roof, extra long twin bed, café food, and of course the easy walk to and from classes, but what does living off campus entitle us to?

            As college students many parents and their dependents (aka US) often only see dorm-ing as the only way to live away at school. Some schools, like Quinnipiac University, often guarantee only three years of housing, if that. Recently, however, Quinnipiac has been working to get more and more students on campus, and are therefore now able to offer students four years of housing. Some students, however still opt to move off campus their junior and senior years

Saira Zafar, 19, a sophomore, speaks out about what it is like to live on campus and why she decided to move off. She anticipates parking to be the biggest issue when living on campus, because she feels that the cost will ultimately be cheaper to live off campus, but the aggravation of finding a spot in the commuter lot in the mornings may not be. 

 

Rachel Hellman, 20, a junior went so far as to create an excel sheet for her parents to prove her point. "It will always be cheaper to live off campus," Hellman said, "because when living on campus each student pays approximately $14,200 to live in a room made for 7 when in a house you will be splitting it two, three or four ways and you have your own bathroom, kitchen, laundry etc. It will be cheaper, I know it will be." 

      Most Quinnipiac students live in Seramonte, Aspen Glen, Hamden Center Apartments, and Broadmoor. Of course there are more apartments and houses throughout the Hamden Area. Many students find their houses through realtors or an online google search. The best website to use is Rent.com. This website allows a student to send the landlord an email to inquire about rent, and the actual facilities. It also pays $100.00 if you happen to sign a lease with a policy you found on their website. 

Ultimately many students are currently happy to move off as they feel it gives them a taste of the real world while still being sheltered in the bubble of Quinnipiac. This may change, however, as more and more dorms begin to open up on York Hill and the North Haven campuses. 

   As someone who lives off campus and throughly enjoys it I say its something everyone should do, but if you don't believe me think about this- if you live off campus you DON'T have to eat the 80g of fat hamburger found in the cafe, how's that for a reason to move off campus? I think it's a pretty good one.