Most students transitioning to college have heard a good deal of advice, horror stories, and myths about college from friends, family, coworkers, teachers, and strangers off the streeet. But how much of it is true? How much can you really know until you get their? Emily Grier, a sophomore at Penn State University and staff writer for Penn State’s Valley magazine, dishes out her thoughts on the advice she was given and how much of it came true during her freshman year.
It’s back to school. Parents are sending their students off with new school supplies, driving them to activities, and helping out with homework. When new schedules start, new expenses usually follow closely. Start this school year off by shaving down costs with a few simple tips from Motherboard Moms. These tips are great to share with other parents, college students, and kids of any age so they can start learning about personal money management now:
What’s one way we can help the economy from slipping deeper into the recession and prevent it from happening in the near future? Educate our youth with personal money management skills.
How do you prepare for a job interview? You press your suit, shine your shoes, leave extra early, and print off a copy of your resume. You might feel like everything else that happens in your interview is left to fate, but you can prepare for some of the unexpected by knowing your answers to some of the most popular and toughest questions employers can ask.
Did you know that no matter the amount of money you have, donating some of it can make you feel better? In the article “Worried About Money? Give Some Away,” Linda Wasmer Andrews explains why giving money to those in need can boost your spirits:
Young students need to spend time online in order to develop technical and social skills that are required for succeeding in the digital age, according to a study by the MacArthur Foundation. Many educators are aware of this, study or not. We see technology evolving, and our evolving need for it, in the workforce, the education system, on public transportation and in our homes.
Many of us know we should save yet many of us don’t.
We tell younger generations to save so they can afford the expensive things later in life, like investing in real estate, retiring at a decent age, and raising a family. We want them to be able to afford the education they crave, the future they dream of, and just be happy.
Saving can feel like a selfish thing. When you put limitations on your spending, you most likely do it to personally reap some benefit in the future. It can also feel like the reward may never come to fruition. Forty percent of Americans whose household makes $35,000 or less believe they have a better chance of getting $500,000 by winning the lottery or sweepstakes than by saving and investing small sums of their pay. But that’s not the case for all savers.
If your kids and students are having trouble understanding numbers, it might be the way you’re teaching them. According to the article “Helping Children Understand Numbers,” the process of how we learn numbers is still very much a mystery, but maybe a little less so. The numerals we use today are relatively new, only having been invented about four or five thousand years ago. The short history of math suggests to researchers that our brains haven’t had time to fully evolve to processing these numerals and that math must be an invention of culture.
Where do you begin when students start asking about the credit downgrade? What do you say when a student wants details on the national debt and wants to know what Congress is doing to solve the country’s problems?
The Learning Network (Teaching and Learning with the New York Times) recently compiled a list of New York Times resources that are great for teaching students about the crisis in the economy. Writer Holly Epstein Ojalvo divided the economic issues in two categories:
It’s almost time to go back to school and college freshmen might be getting a surprise when they realize the cost of college doesn’t end with the tuition bill. Whether students are living in the dorms, at home, or renting, they are all transitioning into a new environment with a new lifestyle and new expenses.