Ready, Set, Go (Life After Graduation)

• 21 Incredibly Practical Tips to Survive in the ‘Real World’
• 30 Happiness Tips for Life
• 100 Inspirational blogs for life after college
• 100 Best Lifehack Lists for Recent College Grads
• College Aftermath - Good articles on topics such as money, jobs, relationships, life and more.
• Gradspot - Gradspot.com calls itself “the premier online destination for life after college”. This site consists of in-depth how-to Guides dealing with the most common post-grad issues: Housing, Career, Money, Lifestyle, and Health. This information is supplemented by blog posts from recent graduates trying to jumpstart their adult lives across the country.
• How to Adapt to Life After College

How to Manage Your Money

• Credit Card Calculator - determine when you will finish paying off your credit card(s).
• How to Build Your First Budget
• Mint.com - Popular FREE online money management and budgeting software. You can set up alerts to send you an email or text messages for any number of budget or money related items.
• Money Tips for New College Graduates
• MSN Money - Tools and articles to help you manage your money post-graduation.
• Pay Scale & Cost Of Living Calculator
• Top 5 Money Mistakes College Students Make
• lifeaftercollege.org - A personal development blog with sections on life, work, money, career and more.
• lifehacker.com - a great site for tips that help you save money, do things cheaply, technology tips and daily tips on ways to make many aspects of your life easier.
• Tips For First Time Apartment Renters
• Twentity - Graduate into the Real World - has a good collection of articles on a variety of subjects.

Student Loans

• Federal Direct Consolidation Loans - This website shows you how to consolidate your existing Federal education loans into one.
• Financial Assistance for Borrowers
• Good Behavior - Advice on paying back your student loans.
• How to Blitz Your College Debts - How to deal with student loans and credit card debt.
• Income-Based Repayment (IBR) - A new way to make your federal student loan payments more manageable.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness - Information about student loan forgiveness for those that work in the non-profit sector fulltime for ten years or more.

Insurance

• eHealthInsurance.com - Offering the largest selection of health insurance plans online. This is a free service, and includes insurance for individuals, families and small businesses.
• Finding Health Insurance as a College Graduate
• Meyer and Associates - Insurance Discounts for MCAD Alumni.

• Business Podcasts
• Free Online Business Training
• The U.S. Small Business Administration - A wealth of information about starting and managing a small business in the U.S.

• DesignSalaries.org - A comprehensive survey of compensation data for the communication design profession in the U.S. provided by AIGA.
• Salary.com - Enter a job title and a zip code and they will show you the salary ranges for that type of job in that zip code.

• Foundation Center - A site devoted to philanthropy. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed.