How to evade cash crisis mid-semester

There is this time of the semester mostly late March and late November where your 50kg sack of maize is about to ‘die’ and from your shopping back home you have nothing left apart from salt and tea leaves ha-ha don’t know why. You try to make calls back home and your guardian is like ”Ngojea next week apo” and it’s on a Monday.” for heaven’s sake dear guardian in campus we don’t have a dining hall where we are offered supplement food for free. Your friends with whom you been having turn ups are now nowhere to be seen, don’t sit back and cry here is how you can avoid that:

1. Apply for work study programs-where you can earn some cash after doing some part time university jobs. Example you can work in the library and earn some money while still studying.

2. Have some priorities-you don’t need to buy a sh.12k woofer at the beginning of the semester with a 13k HELB loan then survive on rice with some strong tea listening to “Niko Njaa” by Juliani on top of his voice for the better part of the semester or ironically listening to cash money brothers; “Gat money like shit” plan well my friend.

3. Avoid silly gambling -with as many betting sites like the sportpesa, elite, betin, name them, don’t depend on luck my friend just because you have been lured with a Barcelona vs. Malaga sure bet and you invest 10k to get sh.100k in return and its 87th minute Malaga defending there one goal….ha-ha I don’t want to imagine but it doesn’t work that way. If at all you have to gamble Nairobi Stock Exchange is there for you.

4. Do some investments- like the mitumbas or you can do some mandazi hawking. Don’t be ashamed of your peers who laugh at you, they will come during that time of the semester for a soft loan.

5. Have some extra remedial- apart from your main course such as graphic design and scripting, you may earn some money during the semester from some forth years who may hire you to script and design their projects. With this your life will be smooth throughout the semester.