{"id":1190,"date":"2011-08-16T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2011-08-16T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:00:11","slug":"budgeting-for-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/08\/16\/budgeting-for-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Budgeting for college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial counseling staff at Kansas State University have published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k-state.edu\/media\/newsreleases\/aug11\/budgeting80411.html\">an article addressing financial responsibility<\/a> for college students. From the piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Budgeting should begin before a student even sets foot on campus,  said Jodi Kaus, program director for Powercat Financial Counseling at  Kansas State University. Students may have extra funding from high  school graduation gifts, savings bonds or part-time job income, and it&#8217;s  important to put that money to good use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students should keep an emergency savings cushion for  unexpected contingencies,&#8221; Kaus said. &#8220;They should articulate their own  specific financial goals to prioritize how they want to make use of  these extra resources. Using them for a portion of college costs could  help reduce the amount of necessary loans and interest charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once students get to school, Kaus said they need to be in  tune with their money. Making a detailed list of all spending items can  reduce the chance of running into an unexpected expense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Laundry and haircuts are often overlooked, but these costs  can add up over time,&#8221; Kaus said. &#8220;Eating out tends to be the biggest  budget breaker for most students. It becomes a social event, but $15  here and there starts to eat into a budget very quickly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial counseling staff at Kansas State University have published an article addressing financial responsibility for college students. From the piece: Budgeting should begin before a student even sets foot on campus, said Jodi Kaus, program director for Powercat Financial Counseling at Kansas State University. Students may have extra funding from high school graduation gifts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3715],"tags":[2816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}