When I started my first year of university, I didn’t think about managing my finances at all. But, university was the first time I had to independently manage my finances as an adult and budget my own spending. Of course,…
Confused About The Canadian Emergency Student Benefit?
With the government recently opening up applications for the Canadian Emergency Student Benefit (CESB), I was definitely a bit confused about what it was and if I was eligible to apply! Because of this, I ended up attending a workshop with…
My Summer Bucket List
I think that we’re all inevitably guilty of using the phrase “oh, I really want to do that this summer.” Try that new class at the gym? I’ll do it when I have lots of free time over the summer.…
We’ll end up where we belong
Sometimes I’m hesitant to write on lifeatuoft about where my personal life intersects my student life. It becomes easy, after a while, to sort of assume that my free-pizza-loving, in-the-library-napping, bibliophile, super-involved, kinda nerdy but obviously quite invincible student self is all…
Student Savings and Money Matters
As the holiday season had come and gone, I couldn’t help but notice the same trend happening with my Christmas cash and the money I had saved up in my bank account. I blame a combination of exam stress and…
Rooting out the money – how to (and how not to) afford tuition
My first job paid me $6.40 an hour— the bare minimum wage legal to pay a teenager at the time. I worked next to the food court at the mall and the food smells were torture. “Listen, I just…