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post 1522368801 10-12-2017, 10:48 AM
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The thing is most kids I see think college is just a huge ****ing party for 4 years. That they wont have a single worry while in college, not thinking about the future impact all of these loans will have on their life.
Sure you can have the time of your life for 4 years but after that is going to be brutal.
I didnt go to school for the "college experience" I worked my ass of to come out debt free and started to party when I had the money to do so.
nah bro im sweet
post 1522369081 10-12-2017, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted By JuiceBoxBrah
The thing is most kids I see think college is just a huge ****ing party for 4 years. That they wont have a single worry while in college, not thinking about the future impact all of these loans will have on their life.
Sure you can have the time of your life for 4 years but after that is going to be brutal.
I didnt go to school for the "college experience" I worked my ass of to come out debt free and started to party when I had the money to do so.
And now all those kids have their Bernie shirts on crying about having to pay back their loans .
post 1522369131 10-12-2017, 10:50 AM
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Took 36K out for a BSME from GA Tech, probably the best decision I could've made.

Been out of school nearly 3 years and paid off about 10K of the principle. Almost all of that has been in the last 9 months since getting married, that 2-income household tho
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post 1522369341 10-12-2017, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted By Ochosiete
And now all those kids have their Bernie shirts on crying about having to pay back their loans .
These are the same people that go to out of state schools, get $60k+ in student loans for bullchit degrees, like most art majors.
nah bro im sweet
post 1522370141 10-12-2017, 10:58 AM
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180k loans - taking the full 30 years to pay off crew. Free money!!!!!!!!!
(1.6% consolidated - pay $602/mo now)
I truly pity the folks who graduated after me - they jumped to like 5-7% APRs....It's out of hand.
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post 1522370241 10-12-2017, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted By Dec4y
180k loans - taking the full 30 years to pay off crew. Free money!!!!!!!!!
(1.6% consolidated - pay $602/mo now)
I truly pity the folks who graduated after me - they jumped to like 5-7% APRs....It's out of hand.
that's a good deal for a Gentrification Studies degree with a minor in Privilege Assessment
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post 1522370261 10-12-2017, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted By Dec4y
180k loans - taking the full 30 years to pay off crew. Free money!!!!!!!!!
(1.6% consolidated - pay $602/mo now)
I truly pity the folks who graduated after me - they jumped to like 5-7% APRs....It's out of hand.
wtf brah, why tho
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post 1522371371 10-12-2017, 11:08 AM
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175k by the time i finish med school assuming i get no more scholarships.
no help from parents
post 1522371411 10-12-2017, 11:09 AM
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I would have been a horror story if I listened to all my teachers and guidance counselors in high school.

brb take your SATs
brb go to a private college for a better education
brb you wont make a living unless you get a 4 year degree
brb take general studies since youre young and don't have you life figured out

Guidance counselor threatened to call my mother because I was refusing to sign up for the SATs and apply for colleges.

Told the ******* I was going to community college.

But lol at the elitist *******s ITT that think every 17 and 18 year old really understand the ramifications that these student loans have on them after college. University and degrees are shoved down your throat since 8th grade and as an impressionably teen, you obviously think that's the natural path to success. Then they give you all these options and tell you, no matter what you take, as long as you have a 4 year degree there will always be a career for you.

Student loans turned into a profit taking machine for banks to prey on kids.
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post 1522371491 10-12-2017, 11:09 AM
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post 1522371601 10-12-2017, 11:10 AM
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post 1522371861 10-12-2017, 11:12 AM
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had some debt ($8k over 4 years) but used it as spending money
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post 1522372141 10-12-2017, 11:15 AM
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A guy at my work is in his late 40s and still paying them off. He got fuked by student loans AND alimony/child support
post 1522372421 10-12-2017, 11:17 AM
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Parents are ignorant financially and didn't properly budget to set their children up for college

Same traits were passed onto me, I'm in 10k for mechanical engineering so far
post 1522372851 10-12-2017, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted By TheAmazon
Inspirational AF...I wont' disclose how bad off I am, not as bad as the story mentioned in OP but lets just say I"m only paying interest at this point. Actually back in school ATM but the plan is to make more, live at the same level and get to the point where I can at least start making an appreciable impact on the debt.....

Espeically since it looks like Trump Devos and crew are going to not honor the loan forgiveness program.
It's possible man, don't worry, I was only paying interest for a WHILE. The minute I graduated, I already had accumulated 2,000 dollars of interest, and had $0 saved up because of my chit school job. Took me a while to get past the interest point, but just kept grinding and finally started paying off individual loans. You'll make it.
post 1522372891 10-12-2017, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted By Gt3x24x7
Parents are ignorant financially and didn't properly budget to set their children up for college

Same traits were passed onto me, I'm in 10k for mechanical engineering so far
My parents were ignorant and pretty poor.

They steered me in the right direction going to school, but wish they had set me straight in high school about choosing a career path and pursuing it instead of letting me pick business.

What a chit degree.

However I'm very financially intelligent and my future children most likely wont have to bear the brunt of student loans like I did.
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post 1522372931 10-12-2017, 11:22 AM
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Almost $600/mo. Feelsbadman. Thinking about paying it off with 401k tbh feels like I'm not even putting a dent in these loans.
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post 1522373101 10-12-2017, 11:24 AM
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I graduated with like 130k in loans. I made a single online payment of 100k and left some fed loans. Still paying because the interest isn’t bad and good for credit. Payment is low and the wife has two PHDs and got paid to get them so as a family I lucked out I guess.
post 1522373461 10-12-2017, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted By DIL22
Some kids just don't have the financial knowledge at 18 years old to understand what impact it will have on the rest of their lives, and their parents are just as ignorant.

I came out with about 28k in debt, but with engineering and economics degrees. I could have probably come out without any debt, but that's a moot point now. I'll have mine paid back in about 2 more years. Some of my friends came out with 2-3x as much and will be making payments until their halfway through their careers.
Bingo. This is exactly my lament. If I knew then what I know now, it'd be a different story. As it was, I have/had almost 40K in student loans. My last calculation has me paying on them until I'm in my mid-40's. It's like another fukkin mortgage. Gonna have to start plunking more on it from time to time.

What fukks you is when you give them extra, they put it toward the interest, not the principle. That sh*t should be illegal.

Hindsight, I should have been like some of you and paid on them while I was in school and not waiting until they were "due".
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post 1522373621 10-12-2017, 11:29 AM
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Nah, joined the army for a few years and fuked up my back, then got a job that paid 100% tuition (pay was not that great, but who cares free tuition).

So I guess I had my tuition paid for twice, employer and the VA since I had service connected injury. Didn't take the VA money though since I figure people who are worse off than me needed it.

It isn't that hard even in 2017.
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I just paid off last year $164k in loans.
post 1522375041 10-12-2017, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted By POTA
I just paid off last year $164k in loans.
congrats. whats the degree, job and age?
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i am! totally ****ed. Went to a private law school, then got expelled and stuck with a 6 figure bill. I just pretend it doesn't exist and carry on with my life. Can't squeeze blood from a stone, nomsayin?
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Only got $900 left to pay it off...feels good man then I will be completely debt free! We are all gonna make it brahs.
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post 1522376941 10-12-2017, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted By Jacobcapra
wtf brah, why tho
\Went to undergrad on a full ride. Rest is living + Dental school...No ragrets. No reason to pay that off early. I think i'm down to 90k or something though left.
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Originally Posted By DSTEE
congrats. whats the degree, job and age?
Six years out of school. B.S. Mathematics/Computer Science. M.S. Economics. Financial Analyst.
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The same dip****s buy a new car right after getting their first big boy paycheck and wonder why they can’t get a mortgage on a $1m home like their parents
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Originally Posted By PTzFree
Bingo. This is exactly my lament. If I knew then what I know now, it'd be a different story. As it was, I have/had almost 40K in student loans. My last calculation has me paying on them until I'm in my mid-40's. It's like another fukkin mortgage. Gonna have to start plunking more on it from time to time.

What fukks you is when you give them extra, they put it toward the interest, not the principle. That sh*t should be illegal.

Hindsight, I should have been like some of you and paid on them while I was in school and not waiting until they were "due".
not sure about now but navient was having people jump through hoops to have amounts paid to principle, like sending a letter saying this is for principal instead of having an option to do so online with every other type of credit account in the history of usury (in modern times)
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Originally Posted By Aesthetical
My parents were ignorant and pretty poor.

They steered me in the right direction going to school, but wish they had set me straight in high school about choosing a career path and pursuing it instead of letting me pick business.

What a chit degree.

However I'm very financially intelligent and my future children most likely wont have to bear the brunt of student loans like I did.
ALSO THIS, i'm not trying to make excuses or NOT pay back what I owe but I mean I had no idea. Just as an aside by the time I was 18 my mom had already been using and not paying on credit accounts she took out in MY name...so you think I got some real advice on these things. My dad is way smarter but still even then never really had an indepth discussion about credit and all of that.
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