Archive for the ‘ Tips ’ Category

Annual Buying Calendar for Broke-Ass College Students

If you’re a planner and would like to mark your calendar now for the next twelve months’ worth of strategic shopping, feel free to use the jelly-filled orbs in your sockets to scan WiseBread’s Buying Calendar. It'll save you more money than those cinder-block shelves and eating all that ramen[ READ MORE ]

Saving Precious Time: Taking Control of Your Inbox

Fall term is here. Students across the nation are moving from the simple and perfectly organized beginning of a fresh term into the messy, I-don’t-have-time-to-wipe-my-ass remainder of the term[ READ MORE ]

10 Things College Students Waste Money On

Forbes has an article up on the 10 Things College Students Waste Money On. Tuition seems to be the least avoidable item on the list, but textbooks and school supplies are certainly full of frugal options. [ READ MORE ]

Handy Tool for Choosing Which College to Attend

For high school seniors, April means making the biggest decisions of their College Admissions Odyssey: Which college to pick among the colleges that have chosen said seniors[ READ MORE ]

Lindsey Pollak’s Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of 2010

It’s next year, which tends to trigger heaps of clean-slate thoughts and lots of getting-shit-done inspiration. For anyone wanting advice regarding career development/improvement, or maybe just a job, Lindsay Pollack has rounded up her Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of [ READ MORE ]

How To Graduate On Time

It can’t be measured with existing technology exactly how much it sucks that this advice is useful and relevant[ READ MORE ]

Frugal Gift Giving For Any Time Of Year

College students have the advantage: You’ve been starving for lots and lots of semesters and know how to work the gently-used and regifted items into glorious gifts, all wrapped up in shiny paper (or the Sunday comics, to be more realistic)[ READ MORE ]

DIY Girlie Gifts

Either way, cheap gifts from the heart come in handy this time of year, and everyone will be awed by your thriftiness[ READ MORE ]

14 Ways To Save Green While Increasing Greenness

Arjun Muralidharan, aka the Productive Student, has a list of 14 ways college students can strive for greenness on Earth. You’ll want to do them all to slow the destruction of the planet, but you’ll actually do them to save yourself some coinage[ READ MORE ]

Checking Accreditation: Show Me You’re Smarter Than a Monkey

I don’t care how high your SAT scores are: if you’re planning to attend any institution of higher education that isn’t blatantly obvious in its accreditation (Stanford, Yale, etc.), and you don’t take the so-easy-a-monkey-could-do-it step of checking your intended school’s official accreditation status, then you’re an idiot[ READ MORE ]