March was a great month for me when it came to spending, even if that resulted in a more boring month for my social life. So far April has started off the complete opposite from the spending perspective! With the extra income that I received from my bonus and tax
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Student Loan Progress – March 2016
This was a huge month towards my debt repayment and completely paying off my student loans for good. If you’ve ever heard of the phrase “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb” when referring to the weather, I’d like to think that I’ve done the
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If you have been on the hunt for an apartment in the past year, you have may noticed a strange trend of luxury apartments popping up all over the place. Even if you haven’t been on the search, you may have seen the signs all over the place pointing to
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I had actually planned on writing this post last weekend, but I’ve been struck down recently by a terrible stomach flu and then a cold. There was really nothing to do two weekends ago, so I thought I was going to be super productive with writing posts, doing my taxes, and
Continue readingAre Graduate Student Stipends Taxable?
Something that came up recently in a conversation I was having was that graduate student stipends are not taxable when it is strictly a stipend or a fellowship. Basically, if you are not teaching or doing some sort of assistantship while attending graduate school, the money is given to you
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