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Even in NYC, This Graduate Student Maintains a Super Frugal Lifestyle
Personal Finance for PhDs
English - September 24, 2018 05:00 - 59 minutes - 68.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsCourses Education Business Investing debt money phd budget frugality graduateschool investing personalfinance postdoc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Emily interviews Athena Pierquet, a rising second-year graduate student at New York University in English. In her first year as a PhD student, Athena lived on her $28,000 per year fellowship and save all of her smaller income sources, but her finances are facing a new challenge as she transitions out of subsidized university housing. Despite living in Manhattan, Athena maintains a very frugal lifestyle, minimizing her spending on groceries, transportation, entertainment, and recreation.