I never thought that a trip to the vending machine would teach me something about finance, challenge me to use my critical thinking skills and problem solving skills, but today it did! I have to preface this story by telling …

Every Fall semester, I become introspective and ask myself “Why do I Teach?”  I began teaching in the Fall of 1999 at the University of Rochester, NY.  It seems more than ten years ago, but at the same time, ten …