Long Live the Internship?
While I’ve written a bit about the downside of student loans, there’s another questionable practice eating away at the pocketbooks of my fellow “Student Loan Generation” compadres.: the unpaid (or barely paid) internship that’s become standard for college students and now for graduates, too. In order to get a foot in the door of the [...]
How I Spent My Summer
Summer has officially arrived in Chicago. We went from mid-50′s last week to 90′s this week. Phew! Like any true Chicagoan, I had to celebrate the sun’s arrival this long weekend. I tried to save money and be frugal, but I think the weather got the better of me. (This is more a post on [...]
Student Loans: A Primer
Based on my latest rant about student loans, an anonymous reader posted this question: Q: I’m an avid reader of your blog and I appreciate your sound ability to put the financial jargon in lamen’s terms. But your current blog does not apply to me yet, so I was wondering if you could lead future [...]
De-Caffeinated
Those of you still buying four-dollar lattes every day may want to check out my friend Jen’s blog, Life Without Twizzlers. She’s got a great post up about quitting Starbucks. Get it here.
Hats Off to the Graduates… Now Pay Up!
Across America this May, millions of college students will graduate. If they’re anything like me, the most important thought on their mind is concern over what shoes they’ll wear to the ceremony. (Mine were a kind of espadrille wedge and I have no idea what happened to them.) The most important, that is, until the [...]
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