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College can be a tough time on the wallet. Between tuition, housing, and textbooks its amazing that students can afford to eat.

Lucky for us Matthew Boyle has found a solution for students, food stamps.

But wait! Aren’t food stamps for the impoverished?  We know college students may not be wealthy… but are they starving?

Evidently according to Mr. Boyle,

“As a master’s student at American University and a part-time reporter for The Daily Caller, I don’t meet the traditional definition of a poor person, and in fact I’m not poor.”

Despite being relatively well off he met the official requirements for food stamps and was approved.  To celebrate he had a reasonable dinner of $19 a pound swordfish, paid for with food stamps of course.

Mr. Boyle’s success got us thinking.  Is he unveiling the flaws in America’s welfare system or is he scamming a program designed to take care of the most vulnerable?

UMBC's StarCraft II team is facing off against College Park's StarCraft II team this weekend! We are playing in the collegaite starleague, a league for college students playing StarCraft II all across North America. This season 144 colleges are playing and UMBC is well in the running for the playoffs and is 5-1 so far. UMCP is ahead at 6-0!
Come online this Saturday and watch the matches between UMBC and UMCP and cheer the UMBC team on as we try to even the records out to 6-1 a piece. The stream will be avaliable at www.livestream.com/CSL_UMBC and the games will start around 4pm. Come online a bit early and listen to some commentary on the League as well as some awesome music produced by infinity state! (more from infinity state here as well)

Where: www.livestream.com/CSL_UMBC
When: 4pm Dec 11th
What: StarCraft II Tournament ~ UMBC FIGHTING!
Why: Support the UMBC team!
Who: The UMBC StarCraft Team and All UMBC Students!

It’s been a tough week at school: long hours at the office, long hours of studying, and not enough of those hours spent on relaxation.  As a college student, I know I’m always one to skip breakfast because of my hectic schedule.  But not anymore!  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  Check out Hua’s awesome recipe for an oatmeal buffet!  On weekends, I try to treat myself to something a little more decadent.  Peanut butter, raisin bread, French toast?!  How could you resist this?!  Also, this is a great quick breakfast/brunch to entertain with or that you can store and heat in the morning.  Who doesn’t like French toast and peanut butter sandwiches?  Why not combine them?  So relax, it’s the weekend; have some breakfast =).

This is a one serving recipe; but it’s super easy to make more and takes only 5-10 minutes to make more!  Be sure to make all of your peanut butter sandwiches at once if you plan to make more servings: not only does it save time, but it’ll be less messy – less cleanup!

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of cinnamon raisin bread, (I recommend the bread from Asian bakeries, available at H-Mart or Lotte, but any bread will do)
• Peanut butter
• 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
• Pinch of nutmeg
• 1 egg
• Splash of milk
• 1 banana

1. Make a peanut butter sandwich with the cinnamon raisin bread
2. Combine the egg, milk, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a shallow dish
3. Cut the sandwich in half and gently dip both sides of the sandwich in the egg/milk mixture.
4. Over medium – medium-high heat in a non-stick skillet, spray with cooking spray and fry the sandwich halves for 1-2 minutes on each side or until both sides are a crispy golden brown.  Make sure you turn the heat down to medium-low to let the egg soaked in the bread cook all the way through!
5. As the sandwich halves are frying up, slice the banana in half and fry them on 1-2 minutes per side.  Serve them alongside your sandwich halves and enjoy!

Try this out with other types of breads and fillings!  For those chocolate lovers, try a Nutella sandwich!  This sandwich is also great savory-style: ham and cheese, roast beef and swiss – dipped in egg and grilled?  YUM!  What are your favorite Monte Cristo combinations?  Post them here =)