USA Funds^® Life Skills^® Module 9, “Live Like a Student — Managing your funds” offers graduate and professional students and adult learners tips and suggestions for managing finances while in school. The module provides students with advice for maximizing the return on their investment in education, stretching resources, and making every dollar count.

The module offers the following features:

• Exercises to evaluate spending habits.
• Tool to evaluate personal discretionary spending.
• Tips for managing personal debt and links to organizations that can help.
• Practical reasons to budget to save money in the midst of increased expenses.

Module 9 offers a Professional Resource Manual for students and Trainer's Manual for presenters. Also packaged with the Professional Resource Manual is a CD-ROM that offers students tools to locate alternative sources of money for college.

Trainer’s materials include a CD-ROM that provides a step-by-step training guide, PowerPoint presentations, the contents of the student CD-ROM, and the student-feedback form.