Get a job where you can work out of your room. I produce a radio show and get paid for 15 hours a week. Get great experience, make lots of connections, and make more dough than any other job students have. I also started a new business here and will implement it next semester. If it really takes off, and I am positive it will, then I'll be set for the next couple of years when it comes to pocket money. If all goes well, I'll also be managing my school's hedge fund next year. It's an unpaid financial analyst position, but you learn the tools necessary to manage, invest, and ultimately make money.
Scholarships and working 2 or 3 jobs at various times. But then again, I dropped out, so I don't know if it mattered. lol.
Couldn't he just get some additional funds added into his student loan and then get a check from his school for the difference?
I did that at U of H, but it took a while for them to process that refund check (I remember they took tuition and fees out up front); and some of my loans won't be paid off until between 2012 and 2017 (graduated in '02). Also, I imagine it's pure hell right now to get excess, unsubsidized student loans.