Recently, an online post by a mother in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province about the living expenses of college students has caused heated discussion (click to view).
Her daughter is about to go to college in Hangzhou, but because she only gives her child 1,200 yuan a month for living expenses, she becomes dissatisfied and angrily "retaliates" to her mother - Does 1,200 yuan mean that her daughter will starve to death? She asked her mother if she was her biological child and said that her classmates' living expenses were several times that of hers.
Everyone recalled their college living expenses that year. Some said the 1,200 yuan was too much, while others said it was too little.
So, is the monthly living expenses of 1,200 yuan in Guangzhou insufficient or more than enough?
Note: The following living expenses are approximations.
Student Wu, a male student from Guangdong Foreign Studies University: about 1,480 yuan
Student Wu is a junior student in the English Department of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He calculated his living expenses:
In the student restaurant, it costs less than 5 yuan to eat steamed buns and drink soy milk for breakfast, and 12 yuan each for lunch and dinner. You can eat one meat, one meat stir-fry, and one vegetable. The daily meal fee is 29 yuan.
In addition to the canteen, the club that Wu joins has dinner together once a month, with an average cost of about 60 yuan per person. Usually, he likes to play games, but he is more rational. The monthly recharge is about 200 yuan.
Calculate the total: about 870 yuan for dining in the canteen every month, 200 yuan (games) 50 yuan (books) 60 (social dinner) 100 (transportation expenses) 200 (phone bills, daily necessities, etc.)= 1480 yuan.
The Baiyun Campus of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies mainly focuses on language majors, so boys have always been more "in demand". If you are "lucky" to be a boy from Guangzhou University and have been "unsingled", then your monthly living expenses will be -
The cost of each date in a relationship: 40 for movie tickets Calculated in yuan per piece, watching a movie (40*2) 60 yuan (eating) = 140 yuan.
Four times per month: 560 yuan. Then, on the basis of 1,480 yuan, you need to add 560 yuan as a date fee, which is about 2,040 yuan.
Guangdong University of Technology (University Town) boys: almost the same as the boys from Guangdong University of Technology
A boy from Guangdong University of Technology told reporters that he often has breakfast in the canteen, which costs about 5 yuan. , lunch is about 8 yuan, takeout for dinner is about 15. Daily necessities 100, phone bill 30, skin care and cosmetics 100, clothing and haircut 30, no books, community dinner 200, transportation 100.
The average monthly expenditure is: (meals) 840 (daily necessities) 100 (phone bills) 30 (skin care and beauty products) 100 (clothing and haircut) 30 (buying books) 0 (social dinner) 200 (transportation Fee) 100 = 1,400 yuan
It is almost the same as the boys from Guangzhou Foreign Studies University.
Student Liu, a girl from Sun Yat-sen University: I can get it for just over 1,000
Student Liu is at the University Town campus of Sun Yat-sen University. She usually eats in the canteen. She eats a large breakfast, which usually costs 10 yuan. She eats one meat and one vegetarian meal for about 5 yuan for lunch, and a cup of coffee every day for 5 yuan. She does not eat in the evening.
She would not buy books if they could be borrowed, unless she really liked them after reading them, so she only bought a few books during college.
Classmate Liu has a boyfriend, but when he is abroad, he usually communicates through Skype (online communication software). The phone bill is almost free. Dates are usually AA, but on his birthday, he will spend three to five hundred on gifts. , on average, monthly love expenses are very small and can be ignored.
About one month: (Meal expenses) 600 (Games) 200 (Buying books) 0 (Community dinner) 0 (Transportation expenses) 30 (Telephone bills, daily necessities, etc.) 200=1030.
Single girls at South China Normal University: 1,035 yuan
The girls from China Normal University are also about the same. A single girl told reporters that she often spends 3.5 yuan for breakfast, 8 yuan for lunch and dinner, one meat and one vegetable, and her daily meal cost is less than 20 yuan.
585 (Meal expenses) 0 (Games) 100 (Buy books) 0 (Community dinner) 100 (Transportation expenses) 250 (Telephone bills and daily necessities) = 1035 yuan
Guangzhou University University Town Campus girls: around 1,685 yuan
In the Guangzhou University student cafeteria, meals are cheap. Meats and vegetables are 2-4 yuan, vegetables are 1 yuan, and rice is 0.3 yuan for 2 taels. For girls, a meal of lunch and dinner can be eaten for 8 yuan, breakfast is about 5 yuan, and fruits are 6-7 yuan. It can be eaten for two days. Therefore, the monthly cost of eating in the school cafeteria is about 735 yuan.
If you don’t want to eat in the canteen, you can also choose to start a restaurant in the snack street outside. You can go there five times a week for 20 yuan per meal, plus a cap of 50 yuan for a social gathering once a week.
Girls who are keen on shopping on Taobao may go online to buy clothes, shoes and bags for 500-600 yuan a month. The phone bill is 36 yuan a month, and the monthly cost of cosmetics is about 100 yuan.
The expenses of such a girl from Guangzhou University are generally:
735 yuan (food) 500 yuan (Taobao) 200 (dinner party) 100 (traffic expenses) 150 (phone bills, daily necessities, etc. )=1,685 yuan
Xinghai Conservatory of Music boys: 2,000~2,500 yuan
In ordinary people’s impression, students at Xinghai Conservatory of Music are representatives of “trench”, because learning art requires more money Much money. Is this the case? A male student from the Xinghai Conservatory of Music made an calculation to a Yangcheng Evening News reporter:
Food expenses: an average of 25 yuan per day in the dining hall, 5 yuan for breakfast, and 10 yuan for lunch and dinner. I usually buy cigarettes, and occasionally snacks and drinks, which should cost about 25 yuan a day, and I spend about 50 yuan on food and drink every day.
In terms of dinner parties, if a community has a dinner, the community often pays for it. Transportation expenses and daily necessities are within 200 yuan a month.
Dating in Xinghai can "save" a little on the cost, because the piano room is a good place for a date, saving money and being romantic. Occasionally, I can earn money from part-time jobs and treat girls to dinner and movies, which usually costs 200-300 yuan.
Calculated in this way, the monthly consumption in school is about 2,000-2,500 yuan.
“For example, good students who do not smoke, drink, go to bars, do not go out to play, do not fall in love, study hard and practice piano every day, or those who are squatting in the dormitory every day, ordering takeout and playing games, may spend a lot of money in life. Relatively little. Game nerds may spend more on games,” the boy said.
Boys from Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education: Meal expenses alone are 1,590 yuan
A boy from Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education said that he usually eats breakfast at school for about 8 yuan and orders takeout at noon for about 20 yuan. ; When you go out to eat at night, what you eat depends on your mood, and the cost is about 25 yuan. Daily necessities plus phone bills are about 150. Skin care products are bought once a semester, and clothing is also uncertain. Just buy what you like when you see it, and it won’t be included.
I get haircuts twice a month, about 40 each time. As for books, there are usually nothing to buy except textbooks.
The number of community dinners varies, but one visit is about 80 yuan. Transportation expenses generally cost 50 to 100 yuan per month by taking the subway.
The average monthly expenses calculated in this way are (meals) 1590 (daily necessities and phone bills) 150 (haircut) 80 (dinner) 80 transportation expenses (75) = 1975 yuan
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Ms. Yuan comes from a wealthy family and her daughter is a sophomore in the Chinese Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. She believes that a child’s monthly living expenses depend on the parents’ education and the child’s attitude. Ms. Yuan’s daughter’s monthly living expenses are less than 1,000 yuan.
Ms. Yuan listed her daughter’s daily expenses: Her daughter doesn’t like to eat meat, so a meal in the school canteen only costs 4 or 5 yuan, and the meal cost in a month is about 300 yuan. I spend less than 1,000 yuan on clothes in a year. The average monthly payment is less than 100 yuan.
I find a teacher to learn writing every week, and I will have meals with the teacher after class. The average monthly cost is about 120 yuan.
Students who learn to draw need to buy paper, pen and ink.
Chinese painting is slightly cheaper, 300 yuan per semester is enough, and the average is less than 100 yuan per month. However, she also said that if you paint oil paintings in the Academy of Fine Arts, the "cost" of just paint, paper and pen for a work may be 1,000 yuan.
The books for learning painting are also slightly more expensive. It costs 2,000 to 3,000 yuan to buy books a year. The average monthly fee is about 250 yuan. In total, it only costs 770 yuan a month.
However, Ms. Yuan emphasized that her daughter has special eating habits and a quiet personality. She does not have many social gatherings. In addition, her family is in Guangzhou, and her parents can help with many expenses, so the expenses are relatively small. . The reporter did some calculations and found that if you eat normal meat and vegetables for each meal, the cost of living at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts will be at least 1,300 yuan.
Can you survive on 1,000 yuan a month at China Normal University?
Warm reminder: This article is reproduced from China Normal University Campus Pass (ID: hsxyt666)
Meals (750 yuan)
First is breakfast, a serving of rice rolls costs 4 yuan oh. Not counting buying a cup of soy milk or Vitasoy.
Then for lunch, if you want to eat some meat, it is not cheap and thick.
Pork ribs rice, 10 yuan. The money for lunch doesn’t include the 12 yuan for a cup of cassoulet if you’re thirsty, or the 4 yuan for an after-dinner apple. (Campus bacteria crowd around and laugh)
Dinner is the same. One dish and one meat like the one in the picture costs 6 yuan. If you order another meat dish and a bowl of sugar water, well, conservatively speaking, it will be 11 yuan. Block it.
Hey, according to a rough calculation, just eating in the cafeteria costs 25 yuan a day. Well, a month's food expenses are 750, so there's nothing wrong with that.
However, many students do not go to the cafeteria every day. Yes, they all order takeout. When ordering takeout, the average price is 15 yuan, and some even cost 20 or 30 yuan. In other words, the food expenses for students who like to order takeout are far more than 750 per month, and there are not a few who reach the specific upper limit of 1,000.
The picture shows the takeaway from downstairs of a dormitory
Daily necessities and study (300 yuan)
Shampoo, shower gel, and other daily necessities are also included in the expenses part of.
Babies, do you still remember how much it cost to buy books at the beginning of school? Well, not much. The campus bacteria only cost 200. There are also literary and artistic young people who have to buy Keigo Higashino from time to time. This is how money flows away unknowingly.
Looking at my dual-SIM mobile phone, the campus bacteria have already made me faint. It costs at least 50 yuan to maintain a mobile phone a month.
Do you think that’s all? No, there are still water and electricity bills? Although it is said to be paid once every three months. The commander remembered that in the summer, the water and electricity bills of many dormitories were 1,000! ! ! It's outrageous.
Oh, by the way, have you passed the Mandarin test? Have you passed CET-4 or CET-6? What about Computer Level 1 and 2? Which certificate does not cost money? Registration fee, reference book, Mandarin registration fee is 85 yuan, level 4 and level 6 is 36 yuan, and level 2 is about 180 yuan. Yes, there are also students taking the IELTS and TOEFL exams. A handful of bitter tears.
A conservative estimate would be that daily necessities and study expenses would cost at least 300 yuan a month.
Image consumption, digital products (300 yuan)
Girls spend a lot of money on shoes, clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, and beauty salons. When I go shopping, I can't control how much I want to send to my wallet. Shoes and clothes can easily cost around 200 yuan. For cosmetics, a piece of Muji foundation costs 98 yuan, not to mention lipsticks of various colors. As for hairdressing, in Guangzhou, a hair perm costs 400 yuan for a better one.
Don’t say that boys spend less on their image. Boys don’t need cosmetics, but they give them to girls.
Although digital products are not purchased every month, headphones and the like are still necessary. Mobile phones should be updated every year and a half or two. How much this digital product costs varies from person to person and cannot be quantified.
It is still conservatively estimated that the consumption in this area will be 300 yuan a month.
Social entertainment (100 yuan)
Roommate birthday, roommate party.
For club and department friends’ birthdays, there are always one or two birthday parties a month. It costs about 30 yuan each time. There are also dormitory and department waves, which cost about 40 yuan per person.
If you still want to take a quick trip, then prepare hundreds or thousands of wallets by yourself.
Or, if you are a fanatical fan of stars, why not support idols when they come to Guangzhou for a concert? Let’s still serve you with red envelopes.
Or, you are in a sweet love, and when you go out on a date, you can have a meal or watch a movie, or give a necklace or something during the holidays. Ah, what can I do? I am also short of money.
The most conservative estimate is that the minimum monthly consumption for this convenience is 100 yuan. Unless you really don't have any social entertainment, but that would be too sad.
Summary:
Food expenses 750
Daily necessities and school supplies 300
Image consumption, digital products 300
Social Entertainment 100
This works out to a decent 1,450 yuan a month! Finally figured out where my wallet went. But even if my parents gave me 1,000 yuan a month, I still felt that it was too much.
From the descriptions of the above students, we can see that 1,500 yuan for living expenses is relatively reasonable. The difference in living expenses among students from different universities mainly lies in the cost of meals.
From this point of view, if you study in a university in a city like Guangzhou, the monthly living expenses of 1,200 yuan may not be considered a surplus, but it is far from "starving to death" as the daughter of a netizen in Yiwu said. "It is even more exaggerated to say that the living expenses of classmates are several times that of mine.
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