Education


If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Paul — who recently shared tips on socially responsible investments and on cheap world travel — is a financial aid counselor at the University of Oregon. He’s offered to [...]

[read all of Federal Student Loan Consolidation Primer]

David Bach, author of The Automatic Millionaire, has some tips for a great life after graduation.

Choose your life — “You don’t get what you wish for in life, you get what you go for.” Make things happen. Choose your life — don’t let it happen to you. Be responsive.
Follow your plan — “Don’t blindly follow [...]

[read all of Life After Graduation]

Every year I try to review the steps in Your Money or Your Life to see how we’re doing.  It’s been about two years since my last review, but much to my delight, I found we are following most of the steps well, and I just needed to update some numbers.
Step 1: Making Peace With [...]

[read all of YMOYL 2006 Review]

Community colleges are an oft-overlooked resource for cheap education. They offer classes from trained professionals and provide access to expensive equipment that you otherwise would never be able to use. I love community college for several of reasons:

Affordability — Community college classes are affordable. Despite recent tuition increases, a class at Portland Community College costs [...]

[read all of Why I Love Community College]

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