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The Thrill of Job Hunting!

Financial Literacy Monthly Digest Tips to boost your job-hunting experience! Searching for a job is like swiping left and right until you find the right partner. No one warns you…

Financial Literacy

Budgeting in College: Four Tips to Keep You from Going Broke

Just when you thought you were finally done with stressing out about money, after all of the financial aid calculators, coin counting, and interest calculating, I’m here to tell you…

Financial Aid and Scholarships

Responsible Refunds

September 9, 2016

Welcome back! We’re so excited to have all the students back on campus for the start of another fall semester. With the beginning of fall comes crunchy leaves, cooler temperatures,…

Financial Aid and Scholarships

Top 10 Ways to Live with Financial Flair, Like Eunice Johnson

We recently hosted an event over at the Memorial Art Gallery in conjunction with their fantastic Inspiring Beauty exhibit on the Ebony Fashion Fair. As we did our research for…

Financial Aid and Scholarships

Fall in Love with Your Finances

February 12, 2016

Valentine’s Day is here, so there’s no better time to fall in love with your finances! Sometimes we open our banking app or our credit card statement and we absolutely…

Financial Literacy

How to Become a Superstar Saver in 2016

January 15, 2016

How are you going to make 2016 meaningful and awesome—the best year yet? Perhaps you set a goal for yourself to get better at saving. I don’t just mean saving money…

Financial Literacy

A Thrifty, Meliora Thanksgiving

November 24, 2015

Are you throwing your own Thanksgiving this year? Maybe you’re staying in Rochester for the break or perhaps you’re hosting a Friendsgiving. Whatever your plans are, we have tips for putting…

Financial Literacy

Avoiding Scary Student Loan Scams

October 30, 2015

Some people think that student loans are scary. But let’s be real: if you are borrowing responsibly and staying aware of how much you’ve taken out, there’s no need to…

Financial Literacy

5 Fantastic Tips for Saving Money as a Rochester Student

September 30, 2015

Happy fall, everyone! We’re so delighted to have students back on campus. We hope your fall semester is off to a great start. We want to help you start your…

Financial Literacy

Inexpensive, Easy Ways to Make Your Dorm Room Awesome

August 10, 2015

By Gala Tubera Gala is a recent grad of the University of Rochester. She worked in the Financial Aid Office for four years as a student and, as such, she…

Financial Literacy

Planning for Postgrad

You graduated college—CONGRATULATIONS! That’s wonderful news, and now you’re off to the real world. What kinds of tips and tricks can we give you to prepare you for postgrad life?…

Financial Literacy

Spring Cleaning

It’s spring! After this brutal winter, we were all starting to think that spring would never come. But it’s finally here, and you know what spring means? Spring cleaning! (Source: wallorg.com)…