There is a very good chance that your college is shaping Limewire to... exactly 1 KB/s

A lot of colleges do this, and the best way for you to find out if this is the case is ask someone at the school.

Why don't you ask around if some maybe has music that you like allready on their computer. You could use a USB-Memory bird or similar to just tranfer from one computer to another. Or maybe people are sharing on the internal college LAN already.

Just ask around. I'm sure someone else likes to have music on their computer