In the first article I wrote on How to Crush the College Experience, I told you about the mistakes that I made (hoping you won’t follow in my footsteps) and then I told you about the best advice I received while I was in school. Advice I wish I would’ve received much...
Every investment made in the history of time has an element of risk associated with it. Heck, the whole concept of investing is trading risk for reward. If you lend money to the government of your country, it's (most of the time) a pretty low risk investment, since...
In the last couple months I have watched several bloggers who are much more established than myself work extremely hard to put out high-quality eBooks, and then watch as their efforts have appeared mostly in vain. I have seen them get frustrated by the whole process,...
I recently came across this video when talking to a friend of mine, and instantly became a huge fan of it (maybe even a prophet for it?). The message is definitely brilliant, but the medium in which it is delivered is equally outstanding (as a University of Manitoba...
JB and I started My University Money the year after we graduated from university (I guess technically I’m still in university while I take a master’s degree in education). We both moved to rural areas and suddenly found ourselves with a lot of time on our hands, but...
For those of you that have been blindly picking courses based on what someone’s second cousin thought, I am about to make your academic life a whole lot easier. Just to be right up front, we are receiving no compensation of any kind from rate my professor, I just...
Those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile might remember that my favourite all-time personal finance book is The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton (released in 1989). Since it sold over 2 million copies I’m going to assume I’m not the only who thought it...
I realized some time ago that for a guy who was never particularly good at math, I am semi-obsessive about statistical analysis. When I was a kid I loved memorizing sports stats of all kinds. If I would have read Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” or Freakonomics as a...