Two Cornell students, Ali Bair ’12 (left) and Brian Macpherson ’10 (below), are writing a personal finance blog for the Miami Herald. It’s called "The College Crunch." They’re looking at everything from scrounging for cheap school supplies to how to avoid bank fees.
“Their goal is to keep up their GPAs while graduating without big student loans,” says Mimi Whitefield ’73, the Herald’s special projects editor on the business beat. “It might remind fellow Cornellians of some of their own efforts to cut expenses to the bare bone as undergrads.”
