I have had a few responses, mostly through email, to my post, 6 Tips to Find Money for College.
This comment addresses all the responses well:
G says: I really need some advice on budgeting. Whenever I get money, after I pay bills I just want to splurge. How do you keep yourself in check? You talked […]

 
So, a few of us in the web marketing department at NextStudent decided to go Skydiving (see previous post).We went this past Saturday at Skydive Marana and had a BLAST. It took 11 of us (friends included) about 4 hours to go. Over half of us got videos (including me). Jon put his up already; take a […]

Guess what? I’m going skydiving tomorrow. I’m excited (and very nervous). It should be a lot of fun – otherwise, it really wasn’t worth the money. I’m going with a bunch of co-workers (in case you didn’t know, I work in the marketing department at NextStudent, a student financing company. There are about 11 in […]

I had a very good friend growing up – and then he started to get into trouble. He ended up bringing a gun to school and very soon after “disappeared.” A few years later, after my first year of college, I came home to visit my parents. I ran into him while walking Gracie (our […]

I remember how hard my parents pushed me to apply for scholarships, grants and all the free money available so college wouldn’t be as huge of an expense. We fought for months over how much time I should devote towards getting money for school. Getting a job while in school isn’t for everyone and I […]

Happy Valentines Day from everyone at Meandering Minds!
We will be adding a new author on here shortly to discuss business and job tips. She’s been working for over 20 years and is a chief officer at a very large company.
As a chief officer, she has found many issues that people could use help with – […]

I found this new web site, Where’s George?, on a blog, The Simplicities of Complexities.
If you enter the serial number of a dollar bill, you can track where it’s been before and after you have - you can also add little comments about where you got it and it’s condition.
Take a look at the dollar […]

Book trailers… what do you think? Can they capture the feeling, theme, and idea of the book without ruining your perception of it?
I found a book trailer (see: The Paragon Hotel) online for the first time on Micheal’s Scribblings. I’ve not seen one online before, though I’m sure they’ve been around for a while. I […]

Check out this web site Big FAQs.
It’s a smart-ass guy (or gal) who is looking to answer all the big questions about life:

Why we exist
What’s the meaning of life
How did we get here
…and more. Check it out!

He brings up some very good points - particularly when he/she starts discussing how what we know about him […]

So we finally finished unpacking and putting the apartment together. And the stupid cable company finally switched our cable and internet - so now I can post again.
Take a look at our floorplan - we like it.