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Everyone knows that saving time and money (or being more efficient and effective with your time and money, if you will) is a key barometer of having control over your life (call it success, or productivity, or whichever you prefer). Life is a string of time and money yields the string of options and actions [...]
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I’ve been an individual stock investor for almost a decade now (starting out very small, while still an undergrad), but it’s taken me some time to revise my methods and learn what’s most important in terms of record keeping. When I first started out, all I cared about was the excitement of the purchase itself [...]
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We hear enough about reasons why it might be good to do a graduate degree. Heck, we don’t even need to hear the reasons anymore because they are so ingrained in the discourse of college and early career-building phases themselves.
But how often do you see meetings, books, or announcements about the reasons you should not [...]
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Dear Graduate Student, have you started your retirement savings plans yet? Do you have a portfolio of growth stocks and ETFs in place yet? Do you have a plan in place to contribute to these investment savings regularly? If so, perfect. Then you should probably be reading up on whether to invest in gold bullion [...]
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Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
Your [...]
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My advice: don’t overlook the little costs involved in furthering your education. Applying to grad school is one of them. We focus on the big ticket costs like tuition and accommodation, but this is one that sneaks in the back door and should be part of your budget.
The largest factor determining how much you will [...]
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