<human>: Hi Reddit.  Been wanting to post something for a while since joining up.  I've noticed that Redditors give pretty good advice, and I was just hoping for some insight on my situation here.

I suppose some backstory would help here.  My girlfriend and I just recently moved into a 3 bedroom with 3 other friends of ours, and we're paying about 2800 a month.  Split between five people, it's not too bad.  Rent is about $600 apiece.  My girlfriend gets her rent money from refund checks from our school, as does two of my other roommates.  I have family helping me out at the time being, and the other roommate is the only one employed.  The rest of us are in school/looking for work.

Now the interesting part is this.  My girlfriend's parents don't know she's living in this arrangement.  They are hardcore, Catholic Mexicans, and very traditional about their views and beliefs, one of which is that you shouldn't live with a boy till you've married him.  Now backwards thinking aside, we really can't let them know about this living situation.  Last week however, our school called her parents asking about refund methods, and now her parents have all her financial aid money.  We can't exactly tell them that we need it for rent, because they would totally flip out, disown her, beat her, etc. and I don't want that to happen.  For the moment, I told her the best thing to do was not to rock the boat with her parents.  The last thing we need is for them to overreact and pull her out of school when she's just on the brink of graduating.  Her parents are kinda irrational like that.

I'm really out of ideas on how to get that 600 a month for the next 3 months.  We've been looking for work for a while now, and we've only been getting by on financial aid.  Are there any options that I haven't thought of/don't know about that you guys can enlighten me on?  I've told her to consider a small loan but we're already under a lot of student debt and I don't know if that would be the best idea.

So please help a couple poor college students out.

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<bot>: Evil mexican parents took  my gf's rent money.  How to make 600 a month?  Get a job is obvious, we know.