Posts Tagged ‘ money ’

How To Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt

Her main piece of advice is to flat out not head off to college at all “unless or until you can afford it.” Not the standard higher education version of the American Dream. Usually everyone’s telling young adults to do whatever they and their parents can in order to acquire a college diploma, regardless of how many decades beyond graduation both parties will be swimming in debt[ READ MORE ]

Get Smart About Choosing A College

It turns out parents and students are less than rational when it comes to choosing institutions of higher learning for the prospective college student’s matriculation. Paying for the education venture twists everyone’s grey matter into knots as well. Let’s keep our heads in the game, people![ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

Watching America’s Higher Education Dreams Go Down In Flames

Is it too obvious to suggest that keeping higher education a viable option for Americans should be among the highest priorities? An ever-expanding cohort of young, energetic, jobless and uneducated Americans sounds like the crappiest American Dream ever[ READ MORE ]

College Tuition: Save or Borrow?

It’s painful receiving the short, simple advice that paints one pristine illustration which you will never ever be able to remove from your mind. The kind of advice you understand you need to know, but that you sorely wished you’d never heard, read, or seen[ READ MORE ]

Ways To Kick the Ass of Student Loan Debt

Loathe student loan debt and all the evil it represents? Congratulations! You are super special and we are here to celebrate the unique perfection that is you, you trailblazing badass! Not really. It turns out you're just like the rest of us[ READ MORE ]

“Unbundling College: How to Avoid Spending $100,000 (or more) on a Credential You Don’t Really Need”

I’ve been a fan of Ramit Sethi for a long time. He’s smart and I like the way he thinks---simple and logical and rarely what I’m expecting. He comes from a money/business/finance direction, so reading what Ramit has to say about higher education, graduate degrees, necessity and money had to be done[ READ MORE ]

My PhD Is A Waste Of Time? F&*#!!!

The article about PhDs in a recent issue makes me close my eyes, cover my ears, and yell with loud immaturity, “La la la la la! I can’t hear you! Shut up shut up shut up shut up!”[ 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 ]