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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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24 UNIVERSITY OK ILLINOIS All that has been said applies to the boy who has sufficient money, and whose chief problem is how to use his time discreetly, and how to spend his Earn Your money wisely. The young fellow who must W a y Only If himself make his living, or even a part of You Must it, while he carries a college course, is in a much more difficult situation. Hundreds of students every year perform the double task successfully, but the efforts of many result in ill health and intellectual failure. There are few things about which more foolish statements are made by the general public than concerning the advantages which are supposed to accrue from working one's way through college. Poverty is always uncomfortable, and seldom a help. T o earn one's way in college takes time and energy which might usually be devoted to more profitable things. N o one should try it who is not forced to do so. Any one who is to earn his living in college should not begin without some money. It is better to defer entering college for a year or two after graduation Should H a v e from high school than to enter with no Some M o n e y resources, and to be forced to depend upon picking chance jobs here and there for existence. Fees, books, and other supplies draw heavily upon the student's resources at the beginning, and he must have something with which to meet this heavy drain. It is sufficiently difficult to adjust one's self immediately to a new environment without adding to this the necessity at the same time of earning one's living. Nor is it easier, as boys often think, to earn one's living in college than it is to do so in other places, especially in small places like Champaign and Urbana, where hundreds of other people are trying to do the same thing. The work of a college course IS supposed t> take the most of one's leisure time, so that one who enter >llej should have at least enough mone\ to e a n \ him for I half year, and it would he wiser if he had enough for an entire y< r\s I Kpefl CS. It i seldom wise for such a man io tttempt to carry a full h lule of studies.
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