Budgeting as a college student is hard, but there are resources on the BYU-Idaho campus to make it easier, including an upcoming budgeting workshop.
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The cost of being a student can feel discouraging. Groceries, tuition, rent, and attending events all add up and the price can feel overwhelming. Budget For Real Life is a 3-day workshop that can help! Budget For Real Life is a budgeting workshop organized by BYU-Idaho student, Breanna Latouche. It teaches basic financial literacy skills.
“College is a very vulnerable financial time for students,” Latouche says. “You have to either take out loans or completely provide for yourself, and so it’s hard to balance that and you’re learning it for the first time at college.”
The workshop will have a teacher for each of the three days. The teacher for Wednesday and Friday will be Melanie Hathway, a financial counselor from U.S. Bank. She will be teaching credit and savings skills. Peer Mentoring counselors will be teaching on Thursday.
Each attendee will be given a notebook to take notes in and write questions. The notebook includes a page of resources, a sample budget sheet, and a habit tracker. The end of the workshop will include an open Q&A session.
Latouche encourages students to come to the workshop to receive extra help, connect with resources, and learn valuable skills that will benefit them both now and after college.
“It’s important to understand how those things work, especially to be successful when we get out of college because when we get out into the world we’re thrown in and we’re learning how to do new things that we should have learned before.” Latouche says.
The workshop will be held for three days in the joseph F. Smith building from 6-7 p.m. The workshop will be held July 9 in room 286, July 10 in room 278, and July 11 in room 220.