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Funemployment Report: November 2014

December 3rd, 2014 | 15 Comments

Funemployment Report: November 2014

I finally feel like I accomplished something this month! I finished a deliverable: my personal finance for grad students presentation, which I gave on November 13. I said earlier that I thought Grad Student Finances was my passion project for the fall, but it turned out that this presentation was.   I’m noticing that my priorities at the end of a month don’t match well my priorities at the beginning of the month. That’s a major component … Read entire article »

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Awesome Comments and Posts 1-14Nov 2014

November 15th, 2014 | 12 Comments

The last two weeks have been pretty good ones around the EPF household!   Basketball season has started! I have my own season ticket this year to the men’s home games (in the past I’ve split one with other people) and so far Kyle has been able to tag along to games as well. We have some pretty amazing freshmen, though of course I try to not get too attached to those kinds of players. I resolved to make it to one football game this season as well, and it looks like it’s going to be the one against our Big (Basketball) Rival.   I gave my PF-for-grad students seminar this last Thursday. I think it went well, although it wasn’t as well-attended as the registration number had led me to think it would … Read entire article »

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Funemployment Report: October 2014

November 5th, 2014 | 19 Comments

Funemployment Report: October 2014

I was less focused this month than I was in August and September. I think I do need to implement one of the time-tracking suggestions that some commenters told me about last month. Listing what I’ve accomplished each day is going well, but there are still some days that I wonder what I was really up to. Even if I don’t start time tracking, I think I need to be more detailed with my daily … Read entire article »

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Consider the Source

November 3rd, 2014 | 6 Comments

Consider the Source

I think most of us like to think of ourselves as skeptical, or at least not gullible. It probably goes doubly so for me because I call myself a scientist. But I realized just in the last couple weeks that I was taking some financial advice at face value without considering the potential bias and motivation of the advisor! And I lost out on giving some advice to someone who likely has a more conflicted … Read entire article »

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