Grad school and free food

It sucks to live on a grad student stipend. It really sucks when you live in San Francisco. We only do this because we're supposed to be making cash when we get out. Hopefully, this will be true.

This is what makes free food in grad school so important. There's tons of sources: seminars, leftovers from other groups' seminars, vendors, etc. Today, the lab next to ours got like 20 pizzas from a vendor, and they were kind enough to share with us and other labs.

Here is my general schedule of free food (not including when vendors bring pizza or ice cream):

Monday: lunch (Biophysics Journal Club)
Monday: dinner (Program in Quantitative Biology student seminar)
Tuesday: snack (leftovers from neighboring labs group meetings)
Tuesday: lunch (group meeting)
Thursday: snack (Biochemistry cookie and coffee break)
Friday: lunch (leftovers from Biochemistry faculty lunch)
Friday: snack and beer (Research in Progress seminars and happy hour)

I figure this saves me like $25 a week, which adds up. If grad students didn't get all this free food, we'd surely revolt.