"Back in the day I went to college....." Funny thing is... I'm not that old.....I had taken a class called College 101. Basically an intro to college. While many of my school mates had bad instructors...all they had them do were 'sriting type' exercises to determine how to better their writing.....my taught that an a whole lot more......

It is 1030 pm on a Fri and you are out of money.....where do you get free food?

Stuff like that......tell them to get to know the people that work at the campus 'deli'. Ours had to 'throw out' all left over food at the end of the night. They would glsdly just give it to you if you had 'hung out there' a few times over the year. They knew what situation you were in...they were in it too. they would bring food back to the dorms.

Also check out 'events' like concerts....they usually had free 'wine and cheese' type things....