I know it's your first car, Everyone's First car gets lots of fender benders and alot of weird Stuff happens to them. I crashed my first car and i thought i drove great. If you wanna sacrifice your teg to be this gueny pig, then it's your call.
Get a beater, drive that for a year and then once you get your baby... you'll love her more.
but 5-7k can get you a very nice LS integra.