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Three tricks on how to survive in campus whole week for a zero budget

I know many will wonder how one can survive in campus without a bob in their pocket for a whole week but trust me many have been making it even for two to three weeks without a single cent in their pockets. Since the very first day I stepped in campus this has been one of my “head cracking” research I have been doing. They say experience is the best teacher but also problem makes us learn more and this is very true for I can clearly point out that the life that I was living first and second years is totally different from the life am living in third year.

I clearly remember one of my high school teacher used to tell us that learning is a continuous process and not only in books, pen, handouts or siting in class makes us learn, as a student one should learn in every step of life and in problems we meet. My research begun immediately when I stepped in campus but the whole of my first year I never got solution on my problem. Imagine I used to have a debt of almost twenty thousand at every end of semester for I used to borrow money from my classmates, friends whenever I called my mum at home and told me “uchumi ni mbaya”. Believe it I used to go and organize “harambee” in my local churches on holidays to raise this money so as to clear the debt when I go back for next semester so that I may get room for signing new contracts.

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