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How Much Should I Get In Student Loans?
Most young students that I remember figured that whatever “free money” the government was willing to give loan them was ok by them and defaulted to taking the maximum student loan possible. Consequently, for many people who want to give students advice, the question...
Saving for College Education Should Start When Your Child is Still an Embryo
It is no longer wishful thinking to advance the cause of an unborn child getting quality college education. Findings in the US place the number of parents setting aside savings for the college tuition of their not-yet-born children, at twelve percent higher, than...
How To Choose The Best Student Accommodation
Once a student has decided what they want to study and where, the next big decision they have to make is where they are going to live during the time of their study. Students have lots of choices on places where to live while studying but they have to weigh the pros...
My Love-Hate Relationship With The Campus Bookstore
As a book nerd, I’m all about bookstores. I love the atmosphere, the celebration of literature, and the quiet library-esque respect that generally pervades the area. Campus bookstores are pretty cool places if you are into book culture. I always find them extremely...
How to Manage Student Debt
Being a student can be tough. Long days in the lecture hall, long nights in the library and weekends spent working in part time employment. On top of this, the cost of books, equipment and living expenses will likely leave you in debt. However, you can survive being a...
How You Need To Navigate The Student Loans System
So after our look at the student loan game plan on Tuesday, today we look at how to respond if you want to to further your student loan cause: 1) Calmly remind yourself not to swear or berate anyone because that gives them the only excuse they need to hang up the...
The Canada Student Loans Centre Problem Solving Flow Chart
As a sort of self-therapy session in regards to the anger I felt when writing my article on student loans that was posted earlier this week I thought I would take a humorous (allegedly) look at what the training program must look like over at Canada Student Loans...
Why Is The Canadian Student Loans Program Insane?
One of the closest friends has recently been put through the ringer by the Canadian Student Loans Centre, and although this is far from the only saga of incompetence I have heard in relation to that bureaucratic boondoggle this one takes the cake. Before I get into...
How to Manage Your Schedule and Complete Assignments On Time
Large tasks are tough to complete and even worse to get started if you procrastinate like most people. I usually thought it would take much longer to complete an assignment then it actually took. This caused me to put off the assignment until it was too late. I often...
Moving To Get a Job
Moving can often suck. Moving when you’re young and looking for work almost always sucks because you are rarely moving toward a desirable location. Locations that are desirable by definition attract highly qualified people in all fields, so your chances of landing a...
My University Money Interactive Student Budget
My University Money is proud to offer its own unique original resource with its interactive student budget. We understand that you're busy and don’t have time to fuss around making excel spreadsheets (all you accounting students out there aside), so we went ahead and...
Benefits of Online Banks for Young People
Most young people I know today already know and love the internet banking model, but it isn’t just “hip” in terms of a fad, there are actually a lot of solid reasons for going with internet banking. First and foremost, much like the online shopping model I have come...
Gender Ratio and Getting a MR Degree
It used to be the norm for people to joke about young women attending post-secondary education in order to get a MRS degree (in other words – marry someone who was going places and who could support them for the rest of their lives). The times they are a changing! ...
Best Place to Live and Travel – South America or South East Asia? Part 2
If you're not sure where "part 2" came from, check out "part 1" that was posted last week. I was going to write about potential business opportunities in this section but fact is I’ve never even considered working a “job” whilst I’ve been living abroad so who am I to...
Best Place to Live and Travel – South America or South East Asia? Part 1
Whether to visit South America or South East Asia to pursue a relatively inexpensive lifestyle is a scenario that is difficult to get any level of accuracy about for obvious reasons – what’s important for one person may be entirely unimportant for another. So with...
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