Attend A Public University, Save Money on College Textbooks @ The Carnivals

by Silicon Valley Blogger on August 28, 2008

A Carnival Hopping We Will Go

You’ll find the highlights of the Beijing 2008 Olympics interspersed with great entries from the Carnival of Personal Finance over at Broke Grad Student this week. Here’s a taste of the latest from the financial blogosphere:

I’d also like to invite you to check out the Festival of Frugality at FIRE Finance where both frugal quotes and frugal articles abound. My picks this time around:

I also would like to make mention of the Carnival of Real Estate that, thanks to Sadie’s Take, seems to have broken out of its short-listed format to give us 19 articles this time. I rather appreciate this lengthier list, with more material to chew on.

And if you want to see what insane is, check out the Carnival of the Insanities — “where the bizarre, the ridiculous, and the completely absurd are highlighted for all to see!” Yeah! It’s my kind of carnival!

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1 david August 28, 2008 at 7:49 am

Thanks for the mention SVB!

2 Randy August 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Thanks for the mention…it’s appreciated!

Randy

3 RetiredAt47 August 28, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Thanks so much for including me in your list of links.

It’s interesting to see how many different carnivals exist – I’m going to go check some of them out.

4 Silicon Valley Blogger August 28, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Great articles everyone! RetiredAt47, the carnivals are a great way to meet other bloggers and do some online socializing! :)

5 FIRE Finance August 29, 2008 at 10:59 am

Thanks for the mention :D

6 Captain Falcon August 30, 2008 at 8:04 pm

This carnival looks rather interesting. Thanks for the mention. I hope I can meet some good bloggers there.

7 Ski Goggles September 3, 2008 at 9:22 am

Saving money on textbooks is always good! :)

8 Austin Real Estate Broker September 5, 2008 at 1:02 am

Hey SVB,
I just read your post over at bargainerring.com. I hear what you are saying about public versus private, but I had a completely different experience going to a public university.

I went to the University of Connecticut and luckily got a full ride. That said, I made great friends, saved money, and got an engineering degree from a great school. I joined the alumni group when I left and I always get invited to functions, but can’t attend because I’m 1800 miles away.

We were in the rural part of CT so there was no crime to speak of, but there are plenty of private universities next to some blocks that you wouldn’t want to walk through. Yale is next to a particularly scary part of new Haven for instance. Or at least it was a scary part when I went to a class there back in the early 90s.

I totally agree about having piece of mind though! Can’t put a price on it!
Joe

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