For reasons I’ll address in a future post, I want to learn how to weld. So I sought instruction from my local community college and a funny thing happened. Within a half-hour after my first class started, I was welding. Yep, I know it’s shocking. My community college apparently doesn’t give a crap about transforming …
Continue reading “The Four-Year College: A Cheap Way to Ruin Your Finances”
I am not a fan of the higher education business model. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the American public. First, in order to get its flagship credential—the vaunted bachelor’s degree—you have to spend two-thirds of your time studying material that has nothing to do with your major. Second, …
Imagine for a moment that I decided to open a football school. And my school’s deeply-held conviction is that it can turn anyone into an NFL caliber player. So it doesn’t matter how fast, strong, big, tough, or athletic a potential student may be. Just give my school four years, and my staff can turn …
Continue reading “The Groovy Guide to Knowing if You’re College Material”
I’ll never forget this one particular revelation I had in college on a particular Saturday night. I was in a bar, but I wasn’t drunk. And everyone was going nuts. And I remember peering at the alcohol-fueled frenzy unfolding before me and asking, “Where are all the Asian college kids?” After all, Buffalo University was …
Continue reading “Nine Things Not To Do When Your Financial Margin Of Error Is Razor Thin”
My good blogging buddy, Matt, over at Optimize Your Life, penned a very intriguing post last week. The name of the post was, Politics and the Things We Can Control, and the gist of the post can be boiled down to one pithy sentence: Government matters and personal finance bloggers shouldn’t be completely disengaged from …