What's the best way to invest a few hundred dollars?

I'm a college student.. I mean about 200-300 dollars - starting out, that is. I always find that the birthday money or Christmas money I get, I end up spending on things that I don't even remember buying. I'd rather do something useful with it. I was thinking of a college fund, and I actually already signed up with U Promise, but I do have a scholarship for the first 2 years.. and the 3rd & 4th years are going to cost me less than 10k (about 5k a year). Sooo.. I was thinking something more.. none-college-related. I know very little about investing, and I know that's not a lot of money, but any good ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What about double that?

It really depends on your time horizon. If you don't need the money for college (ie if you can afford to keep it invested for more than five years) I'd recommend the stock market. You can get started easily and without taking on an enormous amount of risk by doing the following:

1) Open a brokerage account with a low cost broker. Try Zecco (www.zecco.com). They don't have a minimum account balance, and won't charge you for buying or selling stocks. Tradeking (www.tradeking.com) and scottrade (www.scottrade.com) are also inexpensive. Once you open an account you can transfer money from a bank account within a few days.

2) Buy what are called exchange traded funds. These are mutual funds that trade on the stock market like stocks. If you buy a share in one you are effectively buying a very small amount of stock in a large number of companies--which is much safer than betting all your money on one company that could go bankrupt. Two funds that track the S&P 500 (a list of the 500 main US stocks) are the iShares fund (IVV) and the SPDR fund (SPY). Buy either one and you should get approximately the average long term return from the stock market, which is better than the return from CDs or bonds.

3) Sit back, relax and do nothing. Occasionally toss in a little more money if you can. Over a long period of time the size of your investment should grow significantly.

Good luck!

A CD

Do u own a house?
Save for a brand new car instead of purchasing a second hand one.

I would also say CD if your looking for a long-term, no-risk way.
Otherwise...go gambling!
Just kidding...but not really.

Put your money on the bank and gain interest. With such a small amount of money it's not worth doing something else. But after some time you can maybe put money on a CD or invest in mutual funds.

read a good poker book, go to a casino and play for free or try with friends, then go play texas holdem poker

short term.1 day black jack at the casino

long term. 6 months stock market

bank will and give u good returns. but only on larger amounts and long term (3) yrs

ivest in stock, buy for exanple wal-mart its great

Is poker the only thing left in the world to make more money?
I would suggest to save the money in bank, mutual funds or invest in stocks which can give you a lot more risk free neat income :)

invest a few bucks and get Investors Business Daily for a few days, and find a mutual fund that is doing well lately. Find out where you can buy it, and that should grow pretty safely for you.

Open a brokerage account at Zecco and buy Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple and Research in Motion.