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Book Review – The Wealthy Barber Returns
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...
Thanksgivings Weekend – A Time Line For Relationships
As I was sitting at my girlfriend's place for Thanksgiving, I was thinking about article ideas and what issues affect students during this time of the year. For many first-year students, Thanksgiving weekend marks a point where you can finally take a breath and...
How To Fill Out Scholarship Applications
No matter how many times students are told that they would make great candidates for a certain handout of free money, the convenient excuse to avoid the application chore is to say, “I’m sure there are a ton of people out there more qualified than me.” The truth is...
Book Review – The Big Short
The Big Short is another of the Michael Lewis books I got to pick up this summer (being a teacher is great for summer reading) and I thought it was even better than Liar’s Poker, which was the first book of his that I read. Lewis has the unique perspective of someone...
Using a Student Loan To Invest – Smart or Unethical?
I recently came across an interesting thread on a forum concerning the usage of student loans. These people had basically invented a fairly brilliant, if somewhat ethically-grey strategy for maximizing returns when they used a student loan to invest. These...
Simplifying the Tax Code
With the recent debt crisis in the USA there have been renewed calls for “Simplifying the tax code,” and, “Cutting out private jet clauses.” I think a very similar case could be made for Canada. Has anyone looked at their respective tax codes lately? Those of you...
E-Book Review – “The Rat Race”
My good friend Mike over at The Financial Blogger (TFB) has recently released his second e-book, and both of them are definitely worth the price of admission. I’m sure you have seen lots of blogs and sites that tout a new promotion as “the next big thing” because...
Tips For Note Taking
If you go to class you'll notice that there are many types of students, but around 80% of them will be taking notes. Not everyone takes good notes and some people don't even know how to take notes at all. Everyone remembers things differently, but by taking notes...
Rising Tuition Fees – The Next Bubble?
A report last week from statistics Canada showed that the average university tuition rate rose by an average of 4.3% last year, and that this figure outpaced inflation by a considerable margin as the latter came in at 2.7%. This is not a new trend, and unfortunately...
Exam Results Back And….I Failed An Exam! What Do I Do Now?
Welcome to your first failure as a student, chances are it won't be your last one (statistically speaking). When most students go to a post-secondary institution their marks drop 20% (which goes to show you how easy some high schools are). Midterm exams are usually...
The Government Can't Actually Create Jobs
I love all the analyst talk lately about how the government has to do something to create jobs. My boy John Stewart (of “The Daily Show” fame) said it best the other night when he said that members of various levels of government from both parties now use “more jobs”...
We Have A Winner!
In true post-secondary scholarship fashion, the First Annual My University Money Scholarship Contest was won by the only contestant that took the time to apply! Unfortunately this pretty much confirms all the statements we made concerning bursaries, grants and...
Making Money Online: How to Supplement Your Income
The following is a guest post by Lisa at Car Insurance Comparison, an Australian personal finance blog created to help readers figure out how to properly compare car insurance options. More people than ever are harnessing the power of the Internet and Web 2.0 to...
Getting Involved On Campus – Student Government
To the best of my knowledge, every university or college will have a student government even if it's for online college programs. What they do is represent the students and if necessary, take the case to the university/college administration if there is an issue....
100th Post!
We have reached some very important milestones here at My University Money in the past week. We are pretty proud of how far we have come considering we didn’t really have much of a plan when we first started, other than to share some of the post-secondary survival...
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