They don't have mercy at students in USA. eh!! Well, if it you don't have any preference on seats or time of flight, try "Name your own price" or something like that. Once I used "Name your own price" option from priceline.com and the deal was pretty good. The only crazy thing was the flight was at the wee hour of the morning :D and the seat they gave was right above the wing. Other than that, everything was purrfect. :) How it works is, you put certain price, which you think is affordable, and the computer will search the flight for you and give you the result somewhere closer to the price you quoted. Pick the search result which you think is good for you in terms of money, time of flight, time between the connecting flights and the airlines. I think almost every airlines reservation websites has that option. Try it.