A college students money issues

I write this while I'm at work... a poor college kid trying to make a buck so I can buy a pizza on a Friday night. I really do try. I work in my college's library... that's right, I'm a librarian. I work in the media department, where no one ever comes in, because people don't realize that they can borrow things like camcorders or digital cameras. So I come to work every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM and sit at this computer. In my two week pay period, I make just about $40... and that's usually because I cover for someone else. I guess what I'm trying to say is that as a college kid, sometimes it's hard to make a buck. Pennsylvania state minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. I'm from Connecticut, where our minimum greatly surpasses $5.15 with a whopping $7.40. It may not seem like much, but for a college kid, that extra $2.25 means a night at the mall or grocery shopping. I'm a kid who has a lot of medications to take, and $5.15 an hour just doesn't cover two $50 medications. So I suppose this is why I'm going to college. I work now for minimum wage (or just above due to a ten cent raise activated this august). I'm going to work over the summer for minimum wage at home, or at least I hope. I need a car, and to pay for the car and the insurance on the car, I need AT LEAST 2 jobs when I return to school. With all that work, I won't have money, or time, for a social life. When I'm not working, I'll be studying. But what I get told is that when it's all said and done, my $30,000+ a year education will pay off. I'll be rich!!! Or so I hope. But what is a measly teacher's salary going to do for me? That question I can answer. A summer off of work to be with my kids. A chance to give a child the love of learning. A chance to better myself by staying in college and working towards higher goals. A chance to be the mother that some children just don't have. A chance to help those kids get to where I am now. So years from now, those kids will be complaining about making $10.15 as minimum wage, and I will sit back and smile because I helped them get there. Right now, money stinks for me, but all in all, I'm proud of the work that I do and my $5.15 an hour.