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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 [['''Starving Student]]''' is a staple of higher education settings, where even those lucky enough to have financial support from their parents will still be thinking of money in values of mac and cheese boxes or [[Ramen as Dehydrated Noodles|instant noodles]]. The starving student will often have a rigid budget and spend their entire academic career just scraping by for necessities like clothing and food (but not, of course, for alcohol).
 
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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