Archive for: May 2007

May 31, 2007

Understanding the Grad Plus Loans and FFELP. And what is an origination fee?

Filed under: Student Loans - 31 May 2007

In addition to the Stafford Loans, the grad plus loans have become increasingly popular for medical students. Based on Wikipedia and other sources… As of July 1st of 2006, federal grad PLUS …

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May 30, 2007

Understanding Medical Student Loans- Series - Part 1. how much does it cost?!

Filed under: Student Loans - 30 May 2007

Probably the biggest hurdle that we all must go through as professionals or future professionals is the enormous cost of education. Be it dental school, medical school, law school, pharmacy school, etc…the …

Popularity: 9% [?]

May 29, 2007

Saving money on your utility bill. My water bill = $51.30!!!

Filed under: Frugality, taxes, Moving - 29 May 2007

My god, I opened my first utility bill today after checking my mail found my water bill was 51.30. The billing period was from 5/6- 5/15. So for a period of …

Popularity: 8% [?]

May 28, 2007

Charitable donations, Tax deductions! What do you with your stuff if you can’t move it. Part 1

Filed under: taxes, Moving - 28 May 2007

I enjoyed the comment made by Jennie about getting rid of stuff that cost more to ship than it is to just buy new. That was one of my mistakes as well! …

Popularity: 6% [?]

May 26, 2007

Top 10 ways to save money on Gas

Filed under: Cars - 26 May 2007

Now that i’ve started this new weblog, I find myself carrying around a journal and jotting down topic ideas whenever I have time and because I have only 3 posts I figured I’ll …

Popularity: 12% [?]

May 25, 2007

5 lessons that I learned about moving cross country

Filed under: Moving - 25 May 2007

Given that now is the time that most of us are on our way out to our new residences, I thought it might be nice to write to you all a little about …

Popularity: 14% [?]

May 24, 2007

Lets talk rent (before we talk buy) apartments

Filed under: Moving - 24 May 2007

One of the biggest steps that we do as medical students after we graduate is use all of our imaginary money that we’ve somehow accumulated into buying a house. Of course with …

Popularity: 17% [?]

May 23, 2007

My Very First Post

Filed under: About me - 23 May 2007

One of the reasons why I thought it might be a good idea to start something like this was that upon speaking with my fellow colleagues in medical school and my friends in …

Popularity: 14% [?]