How To Furnish an Apartment for $0

1. Get a roommate. Make sure your roommate comes with a loveseat, a kitchen table, a coffee table, and one chair that she found in a dumpster.

Scenes From a Pizza Parlor

I got hired after a 10-minute interview in which, after trying to frame a summer as a counselor-in-training at a Girl Scout camp as “work experience,” I admitted that I was completely unqualified. My soon-to-be boss liked that for some reason.