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This section is a combination of savings tips and proven ways to earn some money for college.

  94. Free Wi-Fi. Why pay for Internet access when you probably have free wireless access on campus.
  95. Blog. Numerous students have taken up personal finance or tech blogging to earn some money for college. If you have good grades, you could also offer study tips.
  96. Free blog hosting. Dont pay for your blog. Check out Wordpress.com, LiveJournal, and Blogger. (Some don't allow ads.)
  97. Use ads. Google AdSense and Chitika eMinimalls are two ways you might earn ad revenue on your blog.
  98. Affiliate programs. For those who know how to utilize them, affiliate programs such as Amazon's could be more lucrative than blog ads.
  99. Amazon wishlist. Write an informative blog and make a wishlist so that generous visitors can gift you.
 100. Paypal donations. Paypal let's you cyber-beg for donations for your blog's great content by installing a donation button.
 101. Make money online. There are a number of ways to make money online including writing product/service reviews. Check out LoudLaunch, SponsoredReviews, PayPerPost, and ReviewMe.
 102. Sponsors. For qualifying blogs, this is an alternate source of revenue. Try Text Link Ads or TextLinkBrokers.
 103. eBay. Legit businesses make big bucks selling new and used items on eBay. Find your niche.
 104. Flip websites. Don't want to maintain a website? Build it and flip it for profit. Read College Startup for some details.
 105. Trim phone bills. Call home with one of several free/inexpensive VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services online such as Jajah, Gizmo Project, Skype, SightSpeed.
 106. Trim phone bills, part two. Keep costly long-distance voice calls to a minimum and use email or text chat software.
 107. Use play money. Of course, underage college students never play online poker. But if you do, try play money until your skills are up, you're legal, and can stick to a plan.

Money Earning Opportunities

This section isn't strictly about how to save. Rather, it's ways to make a few dollars to offset the costs of an education.

 108. Assistant. In some colleges, departments hire undergrads to help grade assignments, etc.
 109. Tutor. If you're good at a subject, private tutoring can earn you some nice moola. There's also Tutors Without Limits.
 110. Awards. Get all A's in your first two semesters and you might on the Dean's Honor Roll and a win a small cash award.
 111. Grants. Students considering graduate studies may qualify for final year grants if working with a professor on a research project.
 112. Painting or landscape. Start a part-time landscape/painting business or franchise and you have yourself money for tuition as well as work after graduation.
 113. Do like Dell. Mike Dell started making computers while in college, selling them to fellow students.
 114. College startup. Pretty much any college startup has an advantage due to hundreds of classmates as potential customers who know and (maybe) trust you.
 115. Part-time library job. Either as a junior librarian or book collector/stacker.
 116. Computer help desk assistant. Your college's Computing Services might need a tech literate assistant, usually in the campus library.
 117. Balance transfer arbitrage. If you have good credit and are disciplined, use all those 0% APR balance transfer credit cards to your advantage.

Rent

On campus residences tend to be expensive and often have compulsory food plans for horrible cafeteria food.

 118. Stay with relatives or famly friends. It's not considered cool, but you can save a bundle.
 119. Live in your truck. Not legal in most places, but Cal State student Andy Bussell is doing it.
 120. Try a hostel. Bigger cities have them. Might be a bit awkward, but it's an option.
 121. Be a super. You may qualify for rent discount by doing part-time groundskeeping.
 122. Buy a property. Good with your money? Rent to own and subsidize your mortgage by sharing a place with other students.

Transportation and Related Costs

Don't live on campus? Here are options for making it to class on time and keep costs down.

 123. Use the train. Live at home (cheap/free) and use a regional train pass. You save on campus parking costs, gasoline, and wear and tear on your vehicle.
 124. Student pass. Some cities provide a student discount for monthly or semesterly passes for local transit.
 125. Shop for insurance. Car insurance bargains are there if you look. Research online.
 126. Raise your deductible. By increasing the amount of your deductible, your insurance premium goes down.
 127. Drive stickshift. Standard transmissions consume less gas. Drawback: potentially higher maintenance costs if your clutch blows.
 128. Change your own oil. Why pay a mechanic?
 129. Carpool. People do it for work. Why not for school?
 130. Plan grocery shopping. Don't drive for an item or three. Go once a week or biweekly and stick to it.
 131. Look for gas promos. Your neighborhood gas station might have student discounts or coupons for regular customers.
 132. Walk. You're young and healthy. Or will be.
 133. Rollerblade. But wear suitable protection.
 134. Bike. Biking is arguably safer than rollerblading and great all-body exercise.
 135. Skateboard/foot scooter. May be hard to pull off in some hilly cities.
 136. Scooter. Less costly than a car or motorcycle; great gas mileage.

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