How to Save Money as a University Student

As a student you probably don't have a ton of money to spend that is why I have quickly compiled a list off the top of my head of my best student money saving tips!

1. Don't buy the text book until the course shows that you must.

A lot of the time a course that you are enrolled in states that you must have a specific text book. Don't listen to these claims until the course shows you itself. Lot's of professors like to set up there classes so that a text book a not needed. Even some provide a free copy of the text. 

Now I am going to use an example in my own schooling career to explain why I stated "Until the course shows that you must." For instance I had taken the course Statics, which is fundamentally a course on teaching how we analyze stationary structures. I thought going into this course that I would NEED the text book, after all Statics sounded like it would be calculation heavy so i'd need to do lots of practice in the text. Welp. I was wrong, the prof provided all the practice problems so I didn't open the text book once. In contrast I took a calculus course and I bought the text. I used this thing like how a dog drinks water. Also used the same textbook for 2 other calc. courses soon to be 2 more.

So what can you learn from me. Just wait a little to see how the class is structured. If worst comes to worst you will be behind in text book studying by like a week and we all know nothing exciting happens in the first week.

2. Utilize Googles Products

This one almost seems like a no brainier to some but may be hidden pure gold to others. I sense that some people feel that the only good document processing programs arise from the Microsoft Office platform. If you are lucky like myself my school provides free Microsoft Office Products but if you are not, use GOOGLES PRODUCTS. Dang, even I still use them.

Hidden inside of you google account is google docs. Inside google docs is 4 different programs, 3 of which are direct clones of Microsoft offices products. There is: Docs, Sheet and Slides, which respectively are Word, Excel and PowerPoint Clones.

These programs are phenomenal and are honestly basically the same thing as using Microsoft office products only better cause they are free! Also, these google programs let you save files as their respective Microsoft office product file type. Meaning they are completely compatible! There are so many benefits to list but I can't list them all here, do some research for yourself! (But one being that it is all stored on you google drive so you have automatically take your files everywhere :) )

3. Student discount bois.

Okay, I am a huge music user. I will listen to that stuff till the end of time. But when it comes to school paying you Spotify subscription or Apple music subscription is a real money sink. $10 bucks a month really does add up. But...because you're a student I got good news for you.

Both Apple music and Spotify offer their service for $5 a month. Saving you $5 a month which could be put towards that yummy coffee you crave.

I personally love ordering packages online and I am sure all of you do too. It's like a Christmas day every time you receive one. So take a look at amazon prime as well, they even offer a student discount. This discount almost $4 a month on prime subscriptions. 

If you were already paying for both of these services might as well get the student discount ones right? It's almost a $10 a month savings...*calculations happen*...meaning you save $120 a year! Not bad that's almost the cost of a page from a text book!

Overall look everywhere! Services for students are actually a thing, they are just poorly advertised. Enjoy.

Cheers.