Money is always top-of-mind, particularly when you have none. This is one of those things to which college students of most any generation can relate.

"The problem was that people rarely had the money to take off to Gatlinburg to ski, to travel Europe or just to buy a new CD."

A new CD cost $12 at the two fine independent music shops located downtown. They've both faded into the ether with a chord and a cymbal crash of course. But when you can't must up $12, you've got it bad.

I remember times like this. My senior year, for example, the arrangement worked thusly: Movie passes given to me by the radio station where I worked got me and a friend in to see a film, and the friend bought dinner.

That was the high life, and yet, even barely subsisting I felt like a wealthy guy.

About this chart: Who knows if it is accurate, but they break it down to $890 for tuition, $750 for rent, $300 for food, $150 for books and $600 for miscellaneous.

Tuition was a bit less back then, but books were a bit more, so it surely all worked out, depending on how many items of miscellany one needed to purchase.

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