Budget Time
As a single guy living the grad school life, budgeting was simple. I didn’t have student loans, my 2003 Honda was paid off, and my food costs were pretty low. I just had to balance my spending with my research assistant’s paycheck. That was always easy to do. One paycheck covered the rent, the other paycheck covered everything else. Over my two years of grad school, I even managed to squirrel away a decent chunk…