Yesterday I started a Master's program for financial planning and investments. I'm nervous but excited!
That's excellent! What exactly interests you about financial planning?
I used to teach, so the idea of teaching individual money management skills is very appealing.
Cool.  So do you plan on being a professor or using your Master's for something else?
no significant value to their living standards, long-term portfolios and assets. Warren Buffett, in one of his documentaries, admonished prospective investors to embrace his highly esteemed "frugality" ideology. This involves making every financial transaction worth the expense:
1. avoid any expense that appeals to vanity or snobberyBR
2. always go for the most cost-effective alternative (establishing small quality-variance benchmarks, if any)BR
3. favor expenditures on interest bearing items over all othersBR
4. establish the expected benefits
local college briefly, dropping out after one semester. He commented, "College is such bunk. Too much politics and jockeying for favor. I just couldn't do it. College is great if you want to learn, but that's not what college is about, it's about making your professor happy and getting good grades and getting into IBM. Any place that says that they're only accepting college graduates is not a place I'm very interested in being."
Growing tired of the local music scene,