STEP Fellowship Project
Budgeting, Part I
OSU Facts
Name This Movie
Budgeting, Part II
100

STEP participants may submit a proposal for a fellowship worth up to this amount.

What is $2,000?

100

This is the money you receive from working, allowances, scholarships, or other sources.

What is income?

100

Beyond OSU's mascot - what is a "buckeye"?

A type of tree and its shiny, dark brown nut.

100

“To infinity and beyond!”

What is Toy Story?

100

Checking where your money went by recording purchases is known as doing this.

What is tracking your spending?

200

STEP participants must register for, attend, and reflect upon at least this many Professional Development Co-Curricular programs.

What are two PDCs?

200

Rent, insurance, and subscriptions are examples of this type of expense because they usually remain the same each month.

What are fixed expenses?

200

This enormous campus venue is nicknamed “The Horseshoe.”

What is Ohio Stadium?

200

“As if!”

What is Clueless?

200

This budgeting rule recommends putting 50% toward needs, 30% toward wants, and 20% toward savings or debt repayment.

What is the 50/30/20 rule?

300

Students generally have approximately this many months to complete their STEP Signature Project.

What is 15 months?

300

Groceries, entertainment, and transportation are examples of this type of expense because the amount may change.

What are variable expenses?

300

What ranking does OSU hold out of all public universities in the US?

15

300

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

What is Brokeback Mountain?

300

This is the amount of money remaining after subtracting expenses from income.

What is money left over or a surplus?

400

What are the six categories for the fellowship?

Creative and Artistic Endeavor, Education Abroad, Internship, Leadership, Service-Learning, and Undergraduate Research make up this many Signature Project categories.

400

When your expenses are greater than your income, you have this kind of budget.

What is a budget deficit?

400

This university building houses a geological museum and is named after Ohio State’s first president.

What is Orton Hall?

400

“That’s all.”

What is The Devil Wears Prada?

400

This calculation—income minus taxes and other required deductions—shows how much money is actually available to budget.

What is net income?

500

Students must publish a written project reflection within this many days of completing their experience.

What are 30 days?

500

Dividing an expense by the number of times you use an item produces this measure for comparing its value.

What is cost per use?

500

This OSU library and museum holds one of the world’s largest collections devoted to cartoons and comics.

What is the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum?

500

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”

What is Back to the Future?

500

When deciding which debt to pay first, this repayment strategy targets the debt with the highest interest rate.

What is the debt avalanche method?

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