How do college students pay for housing, say $600/month, on top of other expenses? Do they have FT jobs, FT school, parents help, loans?

In my experience, yes to all those listed. When I was in school, I worked full time, went to school full time, and had student aid to help pay for the fees.

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It is hard. It is nearly impossible to find a job right now, especially with the thousands of students going for the same slim employment opportunities. Right now my parents are helping me, and i am very lucky that they can do that. However, it would be great to not have to have them doing that when i should be able to do those things on my own, but in this economy i can't find a way to support myself.

Most get PT jobs and have to use student loans, so they stay in housing on-campus. But, if it's off-campus, parents chip in, they get a FT job, dig into savings, lots of roommates, or eventually drop out.. as many of my friends have done.

I do have a PT job, but I am wondering if that's enough. I have money in my savings that I guess I could use.

I had a small stipend from newly finished military service, returned to an old job (20-45 hrs a week) with seniority rights, had saved, and lived frugally. I took no educational loans and asked nothing from relatives, since self-reliance was essentially priceless. Grades suffered badly but I graduated self-made and debt-free. Most people, and practically all entitled democrats, would say that what I did is impossible.