If you're in college now, I can't stress enough that you should be looking for apartments like these chimps, and how. I can't speak for every university, but renting a room off campus is, imagine, often quite a bit cheaper than going through the school: you'll be charged more for 9 months of being packed into a small room with some faggot in a hive of distemperate villainy as opposed to living on your own terms year-round.
Of course, these bougie scumfucks have ample funds for liquor, travel, and venereal disease screening while ceaselessly complaining about being broke. I can see why you've reached the impression you have; unfortunately, the reality of college housing is a bit counterintuitive for an initiate.