Why is everyone urging you to go to college? You can blame it on the French guy, Alexis de Tocqueville. The fuss started about one hundred eighty years ago when he wrote, “Democracy in America.” He observed that America was distinct. In American it didn’t make much difference into which station of life you were […]

Do you have a chess app on your iPad? (There are many available, and they are free.) Even if you are a chess club nerd this app regularly kicks your butt. Your parents can probably remember when IBM’s supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat the world champion of chess, Gary Kasparov, in 1997. It made for interesting […]

In “the good old days” it was easy. A kid went to college, majored in anything that struck their fancy, graduated, and sifted through numerous job offers. If finances were tight, she worked a part time job on campus and a fulltime job during summers to make ends meet. These truly were “the good old […]

If you google “managing student loan debt,” you will get a lot of search results relative to the consolidation, minimization, or forgiveness of loan payments. If you are worrying about how to make your loan payments, it is too late to start managing student loan debt. There are three elements to managing student loan debt. The first […]