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Ask your family/partner/friends to use signal, it is idiot proof enough for most people. You can provide your email and phone number for acquaintances who you don't speak with enough to justify installing signal.
I'm not in any student groups, but you can make a dummy Facebook account and only login using their website from behind a VPN.
Just use their website and carry a physical credit card in the back of your phone case.
We literally just drive drunk here. Is public transit an option? Again, you can sandbox these apps or use their respective websites.
Organic maps is good if you have an address and only need directions. If you need complete records of where local businesses are and traffic info, google maps is your only option. I'd set it up in a sandboxes container though, at the very least.
No, and I'd argue that nobody other than serious athletes need to. That being said, you can get a tracker that does not connect to your phone or the internet.
Graphene+pixel is head and shoulders the best option, especially in places like the US where you have to worry about illegal searches. Privacy requires security. That being said, there are alternatives if you cannot afford a new device: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
After a couple days Facebook will say you are suspicious and demand that you upload a government ID (and/or take a "video selife" or something similar.)
Then depending on OP's comfort level, they can either just use their Facebook account for this student group, or they can use GIMP to modify a scan of their actual ID.