College & Career Articles
The 3 Steps to Figuring Out Exactly How Much Each College Class is Costing You, and Why You Need to Know
I really don’t like laundromats.
I know that they are a necessary evil, but I still don’t like them.
It’s not the overpowering smell of fabric softener or the stained underwear on the floor that you have to dodge like land mines.
It’s having to constantly pump quarters in the machines just to keep them going. Four bucks to get my jeans dry? Come on!
It never ceases to amaze me how differently I think about the cost of something when I have to pay for it in the moment, as opposed to when I’m either paying for something way ahead of time, or much, much later.
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10 Essential Questions You Must Answer Before You Spend Any Money on College
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, if you are going to college, you need a plan.
If you were an entrepreneur looking to take out a $50,000 small business loan from a bank, you wouldn’t stand a chance of getting that loan without a well-researched, well-thought-out business plan.
The same holds true if you are planning on spending four (or more) years of your life, and tens of thousands of dollars of someone’s money (yours, your parents’, or a bank’s) on a college education.
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Choosing a Career the Second Time Around
When it comes right down to it, I guess I let my high school boyfriend choose my college major.
It was at the end of a date and we were sitting in his car in my parents’ driveway.
He informed me that he planned on majoring in psychology when he went to college, and went on to explain, “Psychology is the practice of giving prescription medication to people who need emotional support.”
Well, that’s actually part of the practice of psychiatry, but I didn’t know that at the time.
I decided right then that psychology would suit me just fine too, and I didn’t really give it too much thought after that.
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