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May 3, 2011

Greetings YourSashers!

Today’s blog post comes from yet again one of our favorite blogs, thesimpledollar.com.
In the blog post, Trent writes about how his desires use to define how he would spend money. For him, this came in the form of DVDs, books, gadgets, and more. The blog post dives in further and really provides some thoughts into sometimes how these decisions can affect our financial happiness, while not providing much happiness at all in the long run at all.

What I found most interesting about the blog post was the recommendation to really dive deep and find out what’s most important to you. Is it the iPad 2? The new purse? The new laptop? For example, when thinking back about college, my biggest personal regret was not traveling abroad. I feared taking a quarter off to study abroad would throw off my graduation schedule and I wouldn’t graduate in time. But thinking back now, clearly graduating a quarter later doesn’t have that big of an impact in the long run.

Another reason to really read this blog post through is because it really illustrates the importance of goal planning. Whether that means speaking with a financial advisor, or simply using money management tools (such as Mint.com), setting some goals will help you move towards the life you seek, whether that’s one filled with travels, one in the corporate world, or one that you’re not sure of at the moment.

Therefore, it’s really on you to think about what you want post graduation. After the lovely photos with your graduation sashes and the big party, what’s that next step for you?

April 2, 2011

Help Heal Japan

HELP HEAL JAPAN Wristband

On March 11th around 2:30am (Japan Standard  Time), a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquak shook the northeastern coast of Japan resulting in destructive tsunami waves causing sever damages and losses.

The YourSash staffs send our prayers and condolences to the people of Japan following this recent disastrous earthquake and tsunami.  The YourSash staffs are also in support of HELP HEAL JAPAN (www.helphealjapan.com), in order to raise funds for Japan’s tragic occurence.

HELP HEAL JAPAN is based in the US and are providing information and raising funds to donate in order to show our support.  100% of the funds raised will be donated to Red Cross Japan (http://www.jrc.or.jp/).

HELP HEAL JAPAN is calling out to everyone for aid in order to help rebuild beautiful Japan.  All funds raised will be donated to Red Cross Japan (http://www.jrc.or.jp/).  HELP HEAL JAPAN kindly ask for as much participation/support as possible.  For more information and donation: please visit,

www.helphealjapan.com

March 18, 2011

Tax Credits & Benefits for Students


Don’t forget that your taxes this year are due on April 18th! Even if you’re a student, regardless of if your employed part-time, full-time, or not at all it’s important to do your taxes.

The last thing you’d want is a nasty letter from the IRS come graduation time!

Here’s a few useful links for Education Tax Benefits & Credits you might not have known about before:

http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/tax.phtml

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=213044,00.html

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96341,00.html

Good luck on finals everyone, and good luck on your brackets!
photo credit

January 11, 2011

Productivity & Power Naps

Today’s post covers a topic many students are probably familiar with – productivity.

So where are you most productive, is it at your place, in the library, a coffee shop? Working on a desk, or the sofa?  We’ve also found personally that as you change and evolve your study habits from when you were a freshmen to when you are a senior and ready for graduation, that your timing and duration for study often change.

For us, our top productivity hot spots are:

  • The Library
  • The Local Coffee Shop (Except that time when that one student stole all of the power surge spots!)
  • The Book Store

Feel free to share your thoughts with us! And while you’re at that, check out our how to guide/must read for reasons to power nap.

Photo Credit: lionheartphotography

January 11, 2011

Symptoms of Senioritis? Ever Feel Burnt Out?

Do you ever feel burnt out?  Either from your busy schedule of classes and work or from overbooking your weekends with Greek or club events?  Senior year is often the toughest for many students, and especially when the true symptoms of “senioritis” hit.

What are the symptoms of senioritis?
(Some aren’t necessarily bad!)

  • Planning your summer escape / exploration of the world!
  • Triple checking your credits to make sure you have all the credits you need to graduate.
  • Taking it a little easier on classes when you know you’ll pass for sure and don’t care so much for that A.
  • Starting the weekend on Thursday… ending on Monday.
  • Skipping classes more often.
  • Signing up for summer school ;)

Check out today’s recommended read that comes from PsychologyToday.com.  The post covers when to recognize that you’ve run into burn out and some recommendations on how to recover from it.

Photo Credit: Hey Danielle

May 24, 2008

Graduation: A Time for Thanks!

Graduation
photo credit: foundphotoslj
We just wanted to take this time to really thank all of our customers for making this such a successful graduation season for us! Without you, we really wouldn’t be here. We’re also really happy to announce (*knock on wood) that this season, we have had 0 missed deadlines and had 0 late deliveries with our graduation stoles.

We wish you all the best with the career paths you choose and hope you enjoy your summer!

With that said, we recently found a few interesting posts around the internet. Most specifically there was one post written specifically for graduating seniors at the GetRichSlowly Blog, “Life After School: Advice for New Graduates.” The post is filled with great tidbits of information, from financial advice to career and time management tips. Not too long of a read, and definitely worth a look.

One point that we particularly liked was:

Treat your time as an investment. It’s more important to invest your time wisely than to invest your money wisely.

Time is such an important factor in the “real world” because your life isn’t dictated by term papers and finals. It will be a big adjustment as you will see, and if you are taking on a 9-to-5 job, no doubt the amount of free time you have to hang out with friends will drop. Spend it wisely and enjoy! Need some motivation for time management? Check out the 4-Hour Workweek.

Besides that, in case you are afraid your graduation speaker will be boring, check out Graduation Wisdom for some inspirational graduation speeches and did you know Barack Obama will be giving a speech at Wesleyan?!