I had the same experience, also as a college student with my personal site. I pretty much stopped using most Google services after that point (adsense, webmaste

I had the same experience, also as a college student with my personal site. I pretty much stopped using most Google services after that point (adsense, webmaster, even search thanks to ddg). It took me months to slowly watch it rise up to the $100 threshold and I was thrilled to get my first ever ad revenue check, small as it might be. Only to have it taken away after I had given them my personal information. Free ad space for Google, accusations of having a click ring for me (would have been a pretty pathetic ring if was anyway). /vent