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Reasons You Will Need Extra Cash For Finishing Your Master’s or PhD Thesis

September 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in education, emergencies, emergency fund, financial planning, grad school, savings, students

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.
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5 Money Lessons You Should Make Sure You Learn While Still in College or University

April 14, 2009 · 5 comments

in money lessons, students, wealthbuilding

And if you can learn them while still in high school, all the better!  When I was in high school the last thing I was thinking about was money, and that’s not because I had a lot it.  This leads me right into the first lesson, so I’ll just start listing them and commenting on [...]

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Economics, Finance for Canadian Students Going to School in the US

October 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in Canadian, finances, students

Congratulations!  You’ve won a SSHRC or other scholarship from some Canadian entity in order to pursue your education in the U.S… the only problem now is…. your money is worth up to 30% less than its Canadian face value.  Nice!  You didn’t see that coming last year when we were able to solidly out-buy the [...]

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