By David K. Randall
updated 2:28 p.m. ET June 18, 2009
This month, thousands of college students will sit scrunched together in flat hats and itchy robes while listening to commencement speakers give sweeping platitudes — and little practical advice. Given that high schools and colleges provide students with next to no education in the vital area of managing their own money, they might do their newest alumni a favor by replacing graduation ceremonies with seminars in per
sonal finance.
Since that's unlikely to happen, here are seven things that I wish I'd known about money when I graduated.
updated 2:28 p.m. ET June 18, 2009
This month, thousands of college students will sit scrunched together in flat hats and itchy robes while listening to commencement speakers give sweeping platitudes — and little practical advice. Given that high schools and colleges provide students with next to no education in the vital area of managing their own money, they might do their newest alumni a favor by replacing graduation ceremonies with seminars in per
sonal finance.
Since that's unlikely to happen, here are seven things that I wish I'd known about money when I graduated.
I think the main key points to take away from this article can be summarized in two words. Urgency and options. They really urge people to act now about their 401k as well as keeping options while doing business with the stock market because everyone knows that it is wrong to invest in one thing and one thing only! This article pertains to us as students because we are soon to graduate and having the most money available to go to the best college possible is a necessity. It would help our class and the economy if we could invest the way that this article guides us to.
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