When it comes to choosing your university, the place you will be spending some of the most important and exciting years of your life, the endless options available can make this decision feel almost impossible to make. Because each university offers such a uniquely rounded experience, it is important to do your research, and trust which university really resonates with you. Maybe you are lucky enough to be one of those people who have always known exactly where they want to go to school, or, perhaps you are like me and had absolutely no idea where to begin looking. Unfortunately, for those of us who are clueless as to what we are looking for, there is no plain and simple way to know where the right university may be, and if we will end up choosing somewhere that can meet or exceed our expectations. An effective approach to ease this decision requires breaking down each aspect of university to examine yourself beside the different universities in the top areas concerning most students. Getting in touch with current or former students, attending local university recruiting events, reading view books, and searching through details on university websites, are some of the best ways to get accurate info about different universities. To help get a better understanding of what is important to you, look through the following list and write down what you are looking for in your university experience. After you do the research necessary to understand the dynamics of each university, it can be easier to see exactly where will be the best fit for you! Choosing Your University Location Although the geographical place you are learning in may not seem as important as the quality of education itself, the diversity in locations will be a major contributing factor to your overall learning experience. It is important to realize that where you go to university is where you will most likely create that new feeling of comfort where you will form life long friends, and future business networks and job opportunities. Others may see relocating at this time as an opportunity to travel and live in a destination you may not otherwise have the opportunity to live again, which can be fun if you are looking for adventure. If you are more comfortable being in a familiar environment where you already know you have people to count on, don’t force yourself to leave your family and friends during this transition, if you feel the need to have a strong support system nearby. After you know how independent you are willing to be, you can look at the different pros and cons of different locations such as climate, culture, landscape, and population size. Cost Going in to university, everyone has a unique financial situation to consider, to ensure making the best possible decision when investing in your future. Comparing all living expenses, including transportation, housing, food, and extras, as well as tuition and book fees, is a great place to start to find [...]
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Personal Cheques And Their Alternatives
As I was paying for my rent this month I realized that this is the only time I ever use personal cheques. I remember getting a cheques in the mail for my birthday when I was younger and coming from a small town, I was able to cash them in any store. Everyone in town knew the aunt or grandparent who issued the check, they also know that they could afford the $20 so it was easy. Moving to the city however renders personal cheques useless to any retailer that I came across. The only people who like them are landlords. My Issue With Personal Cheques I hate using them, I use them so infrequently that I can never remember where I put the cheque book last and end up using a different packet of cheques so my accounting is screwy. The good side to that is I know that all my cheques are for the same amount addressed to the same company so at least that solves some of my problem. I don’t really like receiving them either because than I have to go out and find an CIBC ATM to cash the thing or else I get dinged with all of the fees they like handing out. Setting up online banking with utilities is getting easier to do these days and paying back and forth between your family and friends is usually done in cash anyways. Easy Alternatives Good alternatives that people can use to pay family or friends is of course cash, but sometimes the amounts can be large. Recently (although I’m not sure how recently) the major banks set up INTERAC e-Transfer payments. I gave these a spin and they work great! You can set the amount, and the email of the person you want it to go to and you type in a security question for them to answer. The person receiving the payment has to do their online banking with the email address that you will use. Once the person gets the email request and answers the question correctly the bank will transfer over the money. The fees were around $1.50 which isn’t bad considering the time it takes to do it, and its still less than your ATM fees. Another solution is of course Paypal, where you can send money for free in Canada by phone or email, or even by using a credit card. The Best Solution To Personal Cheques Sometimes we do need them, but when you start up an account with a new bank don’t go ordering 500 of them. Chances are you’re only going to need 13-14, 12 for your landlord, and 2 for your utility companies. For anything else you can use Paypal or the INTERAC e-Transfer. Personally I like using Paypal for everything because I can still track it using mint and its great for sending small amounts of money here and there. I use the internet for many of my purchases and I never came across one site that didn’t offer Paypal as [...]
Blast From The Past – Careers
I thought I would take the initiative to dig around the archives and bring forth some of our (when I say our I mean Teacher Man’s) best articles to the forefront of our site. Today we’ll take a career theme since many students have just finished exams and may or may not have a summer job. First off, congrats for finishing! Anyone working in an university environment will know that it is a stressful time of the year! But it’s time to get a job if you don’t already have one. We’ll start off with a great article from Teacher Man; Finding A Job After School In A Terrible Market Teacher Man talks about “how kids these days” are pretty spoiled and they think their employers should cater to their every need. We were both brought up in a blue collar fashion and if we didn’t like our work-place, we were to shut our mouths and keep working. At least that’s how it was back on the farm. Basically, be happy you got the job in the first place. Work hard and impress someone to earn those “work benefits”. Next up, my brother took his “vast” experience at trying to find a job as an engineer (ha ha) and wrote a very thorough article on how to actually find a job. He goes over the old school methods, as well as the newer ones. A great article to look through, even if you are currently employed. Who knows, maybe another career will catch your eye. Finding A Job Moving back a few years Teacher Man talks about his summer experience working as a customs guy at the border. Guys like him are the reason why it takes you hours to get across the 50 foot zone of hell between the two largest freest countries in the world! I never thought that all of his stories of him being a badass all summer would be the actual reason he got his teaching job today. How A Great Summer Job Can Benefit You For our last article on this little round up I couldn’t really find another good article to compliment this collection, so I grabbed one from our buddy over at Boomer And Echo. Getting Out Of The Pile This is an article that describes how to stand out once you get hired on at a company. Companies have standard employee performance management systems that are often flawed. Echo shows us by using himself as an example how one can get out ahead of the pack and get where you want to be in a career.
Lifestyle Inflation – The Upward/Downward Spiral
“Oh no… another lifestyle inflation article,” groaned readers of the personal finance realm when they read the latest offering from My University Money. Yes, I know, many of you have seen this before, and are probably thinking, “Man, I don’t go out and spend frivolously, I’m not trying to pretend I’m a Rockefeller, I’m just an everyday person, I don’t have any lifestyle inflation.” Here is the thing – lifestyle inflation is a silent beast. It sneaks up on us without being aware and often it grows on itself. The interesting thing is I’m not one of the “live-like-a-pauper-until-your-rich” type of individuals. Anyone who says a little lifestyle inflation isn’t fun is flat out lying. As long as you know the true cost of what your new style of living is going to run you, then I say go for it. This is why preaching to people that any form of spending more on themselves is bad, rarely works. Instead, my approach is just to realize the sacrifice in future earnings you are taking by letting your spending rise, and then make sure that you get the most happiness out of the luxuries you are treating yourself to. This often means taking things on a case-by-case basis. For me, buying a $35K sports car because young guys are supposed to like sports cars, they look sweet, and because my buddy has one is a crazy bad example of lifestyle inflation. On the other hand, if you grew up working on cars, they are a personal passion for you, and you would get a major uptick of joy every day from buying this car regardless of what others had – then it makes complete sense and is definitely not something that is “evil” and you should feel guilty for (providing you can afford it of course). Lifestyle Inflation Isn’t Prejudice – It Hates Everyone Equally Negative lifestyle inflation appears to me to be an equal opportunity affliction. The stereotype is obviously people who don’t plan anything and either can’t or won’t do the basic math on borrowing money. There are certainly enough of these people out there, but I would argue there are probably more people that earn a decent-to-above average income and are smart-to-really really smart individuals, that also get themselves into trouble with this weird psychological response to material things. It is one of those subjects that seems to be so instinct-driven, that logic doesn’t really sink in for most people, and then the spiral begins. Once you allow material items to start determining your self-worth and take up a large part of your identity, it doesn’t matter what your income level is, who your friends are, or even what you specifically like to spend your money on, lifestyle inflation is inevitable going to get you. Take a look at many of the professional athletes out there. Many of them come from very average backgrounds, the type of people that would claim if they had a million dollars they [...]
Finding Free Money With Maclean’s Scholarship Finder
Last fall, I talked about how you can find scholarships and Teacher Man helped out and wrote some tips on how to apply for scholarships. Later, I even added some more ways to find scholarships, but today I discovered a new tool which will make things much easier for you in the future. Thanks to my Maclean’s subscription I stumbled upon their oncampus edition which provides many useful articles that you might find helpful. Finding Free Money – It’s All In The Scholarships There’s nothing easier than finding free money in scholarship opportunities, and thanks to Maclean’s Scholarship Finder things just got even easier. From there, it makes it very straight forward to select which school you are in and search for scholarships with different or multiple keywords. From there you can select all of them and click search and it will pull up the results. Finally, you can select one and it will give you detailed information on it, with a link to the main source so that you can apply for it. Between that and the other ways which I mentioned in my last article, you should be good to go. Just remember that there is no “scholarship season”. It is an ongoing process and its best to keep checking. You can make this easier on yourself by subscribing to scholarship websites so you get an email notification when new opportunities arise. As you go about finding free money opportunities you’ll realise that you have a ton of scholarships to apply for. The first thing you want to do is prioritise the ones that you are a good fit for. Sometimes you can apply for scholarships that you don’t qualify for, but I would save those until the end. Be sure to read the fine print and find out exactly what they are looking for and make sure you make your application nice and crisp. Be clear, concise and stay on topic. Don’t forget to double check your work to make sure your grammar is up to par. All scholarships have detailed instructions on them so be sure to read them. Some ask for tons of information, if they want a urine sample, be sure to include it when handing it in. If you are a procrastinator like I am, than you will probably leave the applications out until the last minute. I will again, suggest that you apply early so you can ensure that you hand in a “non-rushed” application. finding free money Image credit
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