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I need to learn how to invest my money in a smart way. I opened a Roth IRA with an investment company a few years ago, but think I can get a better deal if I figure out how to do it myself. I’d like to also invest some in non-retirement accounts. Financial planning is so complicated – time to learn.

Probably 3.5 years left! I’m working on PhD in Computer Science, major in Human-Computer Interaction at UC Berkeley. After this year, I’ll finish my last few years at Carnegie Mellon. My advisor moved schools: my degree will be from Berkeley, but I’ll be researching at CMU to be near her.

This is my time goal. That is an 8 min / mile pace, which is slow and steady. My best half marathon pace is 6:20 / mile so theoretically this is do-able…