Real Talk: College and Finances

College can be such a great place of opportunities. Almost everyone I’d talked to while in high school said that college was the best time of their lives and that they wish they could go back. While I agree that college is great time, I never thought the...

Keep a tab on your tabs

Finances in college are terrifying–you’re out of under your parents’ wings, what do you do? There’s so many things to do! Going out with friends, buying new clothes, binging on school attire from the college bookstore, along with all the other...

Budgeting in College: When to be cheap and when not to

One of the shows I used to watch when I was younger was Everybody Hates Chris which I liked for how relate-able Chris Rock’s story was coming from an African American household in Harlem and because of just how humorous I found the characters. Of the many characters,...

Hotcake House Blues

It was almost midnight, and I was starving. The weather seemed to encourage my appetite; I sat next to the window of Portland’s Hotcake House, which unsurprisingly offered a view of rain and darkness. The morose weather outside created such a stark contrast with the...

MONEY 101

When students go off to college they have little to no experience managing their money. College is full of financial obligations and opportunities that require money. Spending money wisely is a necessity and essential to sustaining your best college career possible....