There is hope for my American friends, too :) fellow students can book a budget flight to Europe and potentially win a hotel stay, and everyone can afford to simply get outside more. May I also suggest playing tourist in your own city? It's what I've been trying to do in Paris as my time here is dwindling--I won't graduate until May, but thesis research will keep me in New York and London for a while... not that I'm complaining, of course. There may always be "stuff," but life can be an awfully great adventure if we let it be.
