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Between tuition and textbooks, rent payments and transit fares, there's only so much money that a poor university student living on bank loans and [[Scholarship Student|scholarships]] is able to put towards food. The
This trope is often [[Truth in Television]], as college loans are very expensive (growing moreso in some places) and keep many students in debt for years. This results in years of struggling to get by just to pay off their education, which has a higher priority than buying food. In fiction it is generally played for comedy, especially when the character is also a [[Big Eater]], but it can be milked for drama at the drop of a hat.
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