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• A Graduate Student’s Balanced Money Formula
  Grad students frequently wonder how much they should spend on various expenses or even how much they should be saving. The Balanced Money Formula (BMF) answers this question for the average American, […]
• How to Prioritize Financial Goals When You Can’t Do It All
  As graduate students, we can be overwhelmed easily by everything our stipends are ‘supposed to’ accomplish for us. If you read any personal finance material (including mine!), you will […]
• How to Combat Lifestyle Inflation When You Exit Grad School
  Lifestyle inflation is one of the great personal finance sins that just about everyone falls into at one point in time or another. However, as a graduate student you have the opportunity to […]
• Heading to a Conference? Tack on a Vacation, Too.
  The opportunity for travel is one of academia’s most attractive perks. In just about any field, you can attend conferences and establish collaborations with far-flung colleagues. Certain fields also […]
• How to Financially Navigate an Unfunded Summer
  One of the most frustrating aspects of graduate school is that your income may fluctuate with each term. In some fields and at some universities, you might change roles not just each academic year […]