On Having a Negative Net Worth:

Today's biggest orientation lecture was about medical school loans and dealing with debt.  I was expecting it to be more of what I've read online and was told in undergrad, but it was actually the most helpful lecture we've had so far.  And I thought I'd share the most helpful thing from it.

http://www.mint.com

This website is awesome.  If you need to create a budget and manage your loans, you should create an account and try it out.  It keeps track of your debit card transactions, your credit card balances, your loans, and your monthly expenses.  It automatically categorizes most of your transactions (and pretty accurately, too) so you don't have to go through everything and add up each category yourself.  If you set your grocery budget as $300 a month, it calculates the total amount you've spent at grocery stores in the past month and shows you via slider bar how close you are to your spending goal.

I hope that was a helpful, if incredibly dull, entry.