Rachel Kossman

 We get it—you're living on a tight budget. So when we presented 10 incredibly easy ways to save money in college, it's no surprise that they were incredibly popular. So in order to help you out even more, we've put our brains together to come up with another 10 ways you might not have thought of to keep your hard-earned money safely in your bank account. Check out our list of ideas, and comment at the end with yours! 

1. If you're going out, look for Happy Hours and After Work Specials

Here in Boston, Happy Hours are technically illegal because Massachusetts doesn't allow sales on discounted alcohol, but that doesn't stop my friends and I from scrounging the city for discounted food and drink deals. You're in college — going out with friends is important and incredibly common at our age. If you don't want to skip on bonding with your friends, suggest heading to a place that offers half price appetizers or discounted drinks between certain hours. From big chains like P.F. Chang’s and McCormick & Schmick’s to local pubs and bars, you're bound to find at least one place that'll let you eat and drink for cheap.

As a collegiette™, you spend your day running — literally and figuratively! — in between classes, meetings and your dorm room most of the year. Without even thinking about it, small bits of exercise find a place in your daily routine while at school. But as an intern, you’ll be sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day and the most exercise you’ll find yourself getting will be your two daily trips to the bathroom or water fountain.  

Not to mention when you're working full-time, it's easy to fall out of the habit of exercising. Dragging yourself out of bed at 7 AM five days a week is difficult enough, and even though work isn’t physically exhausting, a full day can certainly drain you in ways you wouldn't expect. So it's understandable that when you get home from work the last thing you want to do is throw on your gym shoes and go for a run — and getting to the gym at 6 AM isn’t exactly appetizing either.  

Here are some great suggestions for how to get in those bits of exercise while you’re stuck in an office full-time. 

1. Avoid public transportation and walk! 

If you're anything like me and hate walking in the cold, summer is the perfect time to take advantage of this easy trick. If you choose to walk one way to work each day or even just once or twice a week you're getting some serious exercise in without making an extra trip to the gym. After all, collegiettesTM are all about multitasking! 

Every collegiette™ should have a to do list. But I'm not talking about the type that breaks down your class assignments and all of the odds and ends you need to get done by the end of the week. I'm talking about a life to do list - a giant list of all the things you want to accomplish in your lifetime.

"101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" is a guide based on exactly this concept. Broken down into sections that vary from "Academic" to "Personal Growth," authors Patricia Hudak and Jullien Gordon offer up 101 goals to accomplish before you walk across the stage and get your diploma.

Some items, like "ask a question in class" or "go to office hours," you will have done without even thinking to write them down. Others, like "interview your elders" or "buy your own domain name" are valuable suggestions you may not realize are helpful until years down the line.

The introduction texts can be a bit preachy - I don't need a book to tell me that I shouldn't party or sleep until noon, I am in college after all. It's perfectly reasonable for a young woman to go out and have a good time with her girlfriends on the weekends while at the same time keeping a balance and being responsible. Regardless, the actual descriptions of each goal, complete with information on how to accomplish each task, are well written and easy to follow. Plus, the book is accompanied by a website which offers additional information and resources.

Some of my favorite suggestions include "Google yourself and edit your online image," "go on a road trip or camping trip," "make a list of all your skills" and "write a letter of forgiveness."

If you're anything like me, you have a to do list written out with all those tasks you have to do, organized by class, group or type and due date. All semester, mine was overloaded with tasks relating to classes, Her Campus, running two student groups and applying for jobs after graduation. Then, there was that miscellaneous section at the bottom, with a list of stuff I really wanted to get done, but just never ended up getting to.

So now that it's officially summer, classes are out, finals are over and I'm an incredibly lucky senior who has found a job for after graduation, I finally have a month of relaxation time before real life begins. For those of you who aren't graduating but have Summer I or II off, you have the same relaxed, excited feeling I do - freedom!

But instead of just sleeping until 2pm and wasting the day away in front of the TV, I've promised myself to have a productive, yet relaxing, time off before work starts. And I've got a long list of stuff I can't wait to get done in that free time! Here are my list of things I can't wait to do now that classes are over.

Clean, clean, clean
And I don't just mean pick up your week's worth of clothes on the floor and shuffle around the papers on your desk so they're in some sort of order. I mean sit down and go through all those piles of school work that you no longer need, throw out all of the extra papers you've got sitting around, and actually vacuum and dust the way you said you would 3 months ago. I've got an old hamster cage sitting in a corner that I need to sell on craigslist, and an old printer that stopped working 6 months ago I've been hoarding for no reason. Go through your room and purge - there's no need to have extra junk laying around, and you'll feel so much better once you get rid of it! If there's stuff that's denotable, make a pile for Goodwill and give it to charity - another great way to feel good about cleaning!