Proud and just a little more free! Today I officially FINISHED PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS!!!!!!
..... only took 15 years.
Congratulations!!!! It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?
Thank you! Yes, it really is! If I'd known any better back then, I never would have taken a loan in the first place. I would have figured something else out, even if it meant being in school longer or something.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
Proud and just a little more free! Today I officially FINISHED PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS!!!!!!
..... only took 15 years.
Congratulations!!!! It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?
Thank you! Yes, it really is! If I'd known any better back then, I never would have taken a loan in the first place. I would have figured something else out, even if it meant being in school longer or something.
Congrats! I gotta say, I have never understood the college loan thing. I started college part time at 23 while I was working full time cuz that was when I could (barely) afford it. I had tried to go at 19 but the school I got into was like "$25grand a year and no, you can't have financial aide" and I was like "LOLz k,BYE!" and that was the end of that. I've heard these stories of people getting tens of thousands of dollars in debt just to get a BA and I've never understood how that even happens.
Proud and just a little more free! Today I officially FINISHED PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS!!!!!!
..... only took 15 years.
Congratulations!!!! It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?
Thank you! Yes, it really is! If I'd known any better back then, I never would have taken a loan in the first place. I would have figured something else out, even if it meant being in school longer or something.
Congrats! I gotta say, I have never understood the college loan thing. I started college part time at 23 while I was working full time cuz that was when I could (barely) afford it. I had tried to go at 19 but the school I got into was like "$25grand a year and no, you can't have financial aide" and I was like "LOLz k,BYE!" and that was the end of that. I've heard these stories of people getting tens of thousands of dollars in debt just to get a BA and I've never understood how that even happens.
Well for me, it was simply because I had already completely supported myself, no help from the parents, lived alone by then (as opposed to roommates to help pay the bills), and paid my own way through school for nearly 5 years straight without loans already. So in my final year and a bit (took 6 years full time, but I did a double major and a pile of extra credits). I was burning out from working 6 days a week while carrying a massive class load at the same time for all that time, including summers at a 3-term university (top that off with a huge amount of partying... I don't even know how I survived, lol), so I took out the big loan for the final stretch to ease my burden and so I could work fewer days a week at my bartending job ..... I wouldn't do it again if I could go back though. When you're tired and that busy and that young and that poor, you don't necessarily understand how big a burden a student loan is going to be in the future.
But how it happens generally, I think, is that a lot of students don't feel like they can have any job at all while they're taking full time classes. So they need the student loans just to live as well as to pay tuition and buy books. I don't know if saying that either you can afford it without loans or you don't go to school is a good solution at all personally. What I do think is that student loans should be given interest free. It wasn't the loan that was hard. It was the interest. I ended up paying back WAY MORE THAN DOUBLE what I actually borrowed. Obviously that's life when it comes to regular loans, but that shouldn't be the case for student loans IMO.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
mad at myself. was awaiting for a "good" time to go pick up tickets to a local show and now the seats I want are gone. I am such a procrastinator and its bitten me a million times. However I do not see me changing my ways...lol
Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!
bored, been surfing the net on and off for hours and watching tv, listening to music and minding the dogs but now im going to hop off and relax a while..
I swear to god, if I hear our IT fixer guy ask that question one more time, I'm going to flip out. YES! I FUCKING TURNED IT OFF AND BACK ON AGAIN!! NOW STOP BEING SO LAZY AND COME OVER TO MY OFFICE!"
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
angry like i could strangle someone was happily sleeping when my mobile rings asian lady well sounded asian was on the line and asked if i like to play tennis i said what then she said oops sorry wrong number well screw you and your tennis ring me again and i will trace your number and wake you up too
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Why is it always tomorrow when I read this thread? haha!
feeling ill, je ne suis pas bien..and miss my lovely feeling and watching the news did not help they were making the hostages recite prayers or something before releasing some of them i hope all performers start using heavy armed security now ''wherever'' they go like madonna did anyway im going to sleep in 3 hrs but cant do the net tonight feeling yukky so im going to knit and look forward to just listen to lovely music thank you..
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Today I officially FINISHED PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS!!!!!!
..... only took 15 years.
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But how it happens generally, I think, is that a lot of students don't feel like they can have any job at all while they're taking full time classes. So they need the student loans just to live as well as to pay tuition and buy books. I don't know if saying that either you can afford it without loans or you don't go to school is a good solution at all personally. What I do think is that student loans should be given interest free. It wasn't the loan that was hard. It was the interest. I ended up paying back WAY MORE THAN DOUBLE what I actually borrowed. Obviously that's life when it comes to regular loans, but that shouldn't be the case for student loans IMO.
slept well................
working 8a-11p today. when will it end?
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Philly 1, Philly 2, MSG 1, MSG 2, Fenway 2
2018: Fenway 1, Fenway 2
2024: MSG 2, Philly 1, Philly 2, Fenway 1, Fenway 2
have a lovely night/day everybody..
im going now..see you later this afternoon..
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I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
im tired so goodnight
going to listen to soft music and hop off this thing..
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You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
im also very thankful for the little that i do have which is saying something...
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was happily sleeping when my mobile rings
asian lady well sounded asian was on the line
and asked if i like to play tennis i said what
then she said oops sorry wrong number
well screw you and your tennis ring me again
and i will trace your number and wake you up too
Oh yeah, the question: Early AM blahs.
and watching the news did not help
they were making the hostages recite prayers
or something before releasing some of them
i hope all performers start using heavy armed
security now ''wherever'' they go
like madonna did
anyway im going to sleep in 3 hrs but cant do
the net tonight feeling yukky so im going to
knit and look forward to just
listen to lovely music thank you..
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..