Anonymous graduate student accounts of trying to survive Santa Cruz on the inadequate wages and funding we receive from this institution. These are not uncommon experiences. The situation is dire.
1 Salad Days
2 Internet, Food, or Medical Care? Choose One
3 Five Years of Mold Poisoning
4 New Year’s Edition: Struggling Every Day
5 Unsafe Housing and Living Unhoused
6 I need a COLA to keep faith in this institution
7 Juggling Four Part-Time Jobs to Afford Rent
8 The only thing that can keep me going is a COLA
9 An Abusive Landlord Leads to Houselessness
10 Financial Precarity Takes a Toll on Mental Health