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Procrastination: How to Control a Student’s Worst Enemy
There’s something almost natural about procrastination. It’s as if it's the human default option whenever we encounter an obstacle of any kind. It does tend to be more pronounced however with university students. It isn’t even a stretch to say that procrastination is...
Five Financial Concepts You Should Learn Even if University Doesn’t Teach Them
With all that you will learn in university, one thing you won't learn much about is personal finances. And when you graduate, and enter the adult world for keeps, you’ll probably be exposed to many financial concepts that will be completely alien to you. The best way...
Losing Sleep Over Student Loan Debt? Do These Instead
Right now, there are millions of university graduates struggling with how they are going to payoff their student loan debts. If you are currently a student, and already losing sleep over how much you will owe upon graduation, it’s probably a sign that you need to be...
Post Graduation Regrets That You Can Change Now
Imagine that you are a couple of years out of university. Looking back, what do you think you would have done differently? Actually, that’s not an arbitrary question. I’m posing it because it’s very likely that you will have certain regrets after graduation. The...
MMFBT 013 – Mark Seed – Avoid My Investing Mistakes
Does this whole investing thing still make you queasy? Today on the More Money for Beer an Textbooks Podcast we hear from one of Canada’s most popular DIY investors on what he wishes he might have done differently when he was starting out. Mark Seed is the brains...
How to Thrive on Very Little Sleep
As a university student, it’s pretty common to run your life with very little sleep. For some students, functioning with little sleep is their version of “normal”. There’s little doubt that some people can get by with less sleep than others. But every one of us will...
Setting New Year’s Resolutions that are Doable
As the new year approaches and takes root, we once again find ourselves scrambling for resolutions to implement that will revolutionize our lives. But it may be better to come up with resolutions that are certifiably doable, rather than going for the big ones that we...
Why Can't Today's Graduates Get Hired? – Weekend Readings
Why can’t today’s graduates get hired? The Globe and Mail · Here are some stories from the new world of work.A 29-year-old woman (I’ll call her Chris) is trying to land a job as a communications professional. She’s a personable self-starter, with undergraduate and...
Surviving Final Exams
Final exams only last for a week or two but when you’re going through them it can seem like a real marathon. Maybe it just seems that way since it’s the end of a long semester, but mainly because there’s so much riding on the outcome. They can magnify the pressure...
MMFBT 012 – Miranda Marquit: How to Become a Freelance Writer
You might not think the skills you’re developing at school have any real value. Today on the podcast we’ll chat about how you can start a freelance writing career in order to make some cash on the side and possibly even transition into a well-paying career. We bring...
Preparing Yourself to be Home for the Holidays
Do you experience any pangs of anxiety at the prospect of going home for the holidays? If you do, you’re not alone. Going home should be a natural event, especially if it involves going home for the holidays. But when you are at university, you are living away from...
Do You Need Life Insurance as a University Student?
Life insurance? Aren’t you too young to even worry about that right now? After all, how many university students die each year? While it’s true that dying is a rarity among people in their late teens and early 20s, having a life insurance policy – at least a small one...
Career Skills You Need to Learn Before Graduation
Universities are excellent at providing the basic skills that you need to enter a career field. But there may be other career skills that you need to learn in order to both enter and to be successful in your career of choice. We can think of those as auxiliary skills...
Staying Healthy at University
With all that you have going on in school, staying healthy at university is one of those things that could easily fall through the cracks. But a single bout with the flu could potentially cost you an entire semester. Think about it – just a few weeks of being out of...
Why Your Professor is NOT like Your High School Teachers
One of the most important factors determining your success in any university class is the relationship you have with your professor. But for better or for worse, your professors are not like your high school teachers. That can make them more difficult to understand –...
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