"College is the best time to develop healthy financial habits that you'll need later in life because you are completely vulnerable in the world as a young adult. College is the BEST time to learn about money and start building smart habits around making, spending, saving and investing your money. "ithout the proper systems in place, it didn't matter that I was living at home, it didn't matter that I was making six figures because, if I'm not keeping that money, it's for not."Ī lot of college students may think that because they don't have a lot of money, they don't need to learn about money. 'I'll go to New York next week,'" Clements said. "My first two months of working … I was just like: 'I'll order DoorDash. "It was me doing an internship over the summer, making money from that, and trying to figure out how it's going to work for the rest of the school year," she said.Īnd her trouble with managing money in college would later show up when she secured her first postgraduate offer amid the pandemic. This was true for Alillia Clements, a 23-year old Stanford University graduate, senior financial analyst at Microsoft and the creator of Gen Z adulting and finance Instagram and TikTok accounts, In spite of her affinity for math and numbers and experience taking economic courses as a public policy major, Clements felt that money management and financial literacy were inaccessible to her.
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