LooLoo Amante had nowhere to live after her freshman year of college, so she bought a Scion with tinted windows and, at just 19 years old, slept in the driver's seat.
She had little money for food, let alone a costly meal plan, so she sometimes asked friends to grab her a banana or apple from the dining hall.
Even some of her closest friends had no idea that homelessness was part of the college experience for Amante, an advertising major who ran on the cross-country team and served as San Jose State's student-body president before graduating in May.
"I didn't want to tell people that I was living out of my car or that I was couch-hopping," she said.
[For more of this story, written by Katy Murphy, go to http://www.mercurynews.com/edu...ot-just-ramen-noodle]
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