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Challenges Students May Encounter While Choosing A College

Having a college degree can open doors for many job opportunities that can further help in meeting personal and professional goals. Therefore, picking the right college plays an essential role in kick starting one’s career growth.

Getting into college is definitely exciting for both students and their parents. This is practically the first step for students towards building a career for themselves. But at the same time, the entire process can be quite confusing and overwhelming. Amidst pursuing academic goals to chasing interests, there’s a lot a student has to deal with.

January 14, 2022

Money Saving Tips

5 Ways To Save Money In College

From one college student to another, let me fill you in on a few tips and tricks I’ve discovered to save money in college. We have to help each other out in this world of stress, debt, and fatigue, so here are my top five ways to save money as a college student.

November 7, 2019

Money Saving Tips

Managing Your Personal Finances As A Student

Going to college is often the first experience that people have of managing their own personal finances. Without parents at home to watch their spending and perhaps give money when needed, students need to buckle up and learn how to tighten their purse strings. Although it can be tempting to splash out and spend money when you’re at college, living frugally can set up good habits for the future and allow you to better enjoy your salary when you finally get the graduate job you’ve been coveting. Read on to discover some of the best ways for students to manage their finances.

November 22, 2016

Money Saving Tips

Practical Ways For Students To Save Money

Whether you’re going to school for your bachelors in business, your masters in social work online from a school like Rutgers University, or your degree in education, you’re probably in search of ways to help you save money so that you have more to spend on your school supplies and tuition. Well, there are a few practical ways that you can go about saving money surprisingly easily, and a few of them are listed below.

Cook for Yourself

While it may be convenient and it might save you time, eating at restaurants all the time, or even at your school’s cafeteria, will end up costing you a lot more money than necessary. If you wish to save more cash, purchase your groceries and prepare your meals at home. Your wallet, and your waistline, will thank you.

November 17, 2016

Money Saving Tips

How To Prevent Frivolous Spending In College

On one hand, college is the most crucial educational experience you’ll ever have. It’s where you really set the groundwork for your future career, growing as a student and working harder than you ever have before in your life. But it’s also a crazy amount of fun. You’ll meet more people, have more experiences and yes, drink more beer than possibly during any other four year stretch you’ll experience. That’s an awful lot to balance, not only when it comes to time management, but also your financial budget. Simply affording the classes you need to graduate is a pretty tall order these days, and most people can’t even do that without taking on a mountain of student loan debt they’ll be paying off for years to come. If you’re on a tight budget each semester, you’ve got to watch every dollar. Hopefully that insures you can cover the basics and still have enough fun that you don’t feel like you’re missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Here are a couple of tips to help you prevent frivolous spending in college.

First of all, think long and hard about your approach to eating. Most college students start out with a food plan, so ideally your major meals are covered. Yet it never seems to work out that way. At some point in the semester you’ll get tired of the choices laid out, and will end up going out to eat, calling for food delivery, snacking from vending machines or shoving down some late night grease bomb you barely remember in the morning. All of those meals out will add up in a hurry, and most of the time these meals just blend in with one another. Try to stick to your meal plan as much as possible, and go on periodic supermarket runs so you have snacks around that aren’t nearly as expensive as what you’d pick up in the convenience store.

May 14, 2013

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