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I can buy a share of Coca-Cola for that," I jokingly said to the store manager after asking him where the beef jerky was. I had seen the brand I wanted up front, but it was a larger size and priced at $30. The conversation went like this: "Are you sure you don't want that... Continue Reading →
I deleted this on Medium from the days when I would document my journey on there. I wrote this on Jan 27th, 2022. But now republishing it on here, due to inspiration from a previous post- Why I became an investor and started the broke college student blog. This time around, I am writing... Continue Reading →
I just started the investment fund a couple of months ago, and getting straight to the point I barely earn any dividends as I am focusing on growing from the ground up - the current annual income for the fund is $5.82. The goal right now isn't to live off dividends while I'm in college;... Continue Reading →
How did we get so entitled? I came across this question on a popular financial blog in the personal finance realm, and it prompted me to reflect on how our standards of living have gradually consumed us over time. Can we solely blame ourselves? The answer is both yes and no, but delving deeper into... Continue Reading →
Often as I write here, I realize that everyone is at different stages in their investing journey. Some are far ahead of me, while others are just starting out. However, the main focus of this blog remains on being a broke college student, a demographic I belong to—though perhaps not broke in the traditional sense.... Continue Reading →
The scary truth and the real reason why I live like a broke college student even when I don't have to is rooted in a time in my life when the saying "I don't have a pot to piss in" was painfully true. I was terrified to my core during a period when my income... Continue Reading →
The other day I was watching from the shadows a live stream from a known YouTuber who talks about Wall Street. He mentioned how Biden's team is not taking advantage of the fact that the stock market is at an all-time high. He didn't understand it but was told by a friend that the reason... Continue Reading →
Sometimes nostalgia has you going back to the beginning. The basics. It's where all the fundamentals of who you are began. It's where you made the stand. The stand to change and grow into the person you are now. And so it began, the journey of change and growth until one day you woke up... Continue Reading →
This blog post was supposed to be published at the start of spring quarter, April 11th to be exact, but I got busy. I wrote a bit about how I was saving money and not planning to spend much on campus. However, there was one event I couldn't miss, Dick's food truck on campus, famous... Continue Reading →
If you're like me you're sitting down all the time and not in the gym because you're trying to save money. But this also means you're now trying to save on calories because your energy expenditure has gone considerably down since becoming a student. As someone who sits with my butt in a chair for... Continue Reading →
The Broke College Student 