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My Student Loan company sent me a: Thank you for your business - kind of formal email.
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like.. this wasn't a choice. i didn't pick you guys. Don't do this shit.
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thanks for charging me thousands of dollars of interest a year. That's awesome. you're the best.
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thanks for letting us bloodlet you every year because student loans are a mess
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^ yup.
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at least my interest is set and doesn't fluctuate. there's that I suppose.
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they were also like: want lower payments? Switch to this other payment plan. And when I looked into it i'd have it paid off in 2040. When I would be 56
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I DON'T WANT TO BE PAYING STUDENT LOANS IN MY 50's!!!!
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J E S U S
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in college, one of my professors mentioned casually "oh and i sold [priceless antique] about 20 years ago and finally paid off all my student loans"
ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
HE'S AN OLD DUDE
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I DONT WANT TO PAY LOANS INTO MY 40S MUCH LESS MY 50S
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well I've got like.. $30k left i dunno if I can pay that off in 7 years.
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i don't have priceless antiques to auction off.
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ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
god
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murrica
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yep
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i have a friend who has $160,000 in student loans.
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CHRIST????
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i think he said he'd have to make about $300,000 a year to have it paid off by the time he's 50
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That's what happens if you have to pay room and board and stay in dorms. D:
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oh my god this is the reason i was like, skimming costs off wherever i could lMFAO
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i wound up with.... idk? <25k? for undergrad, i cant recall the exact number
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i'm pretty sure he didn't eat
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and i thought i had it bad with my limited apartment budget lmfao
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UC Davis was cheap as shit for me. I paid that off in like 3 years. Academy of Art was like: HERE'S THE DOWN PAYMENT FOR A HOUSE. HAVE FUN WITH THAT.
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yeah what i have from my cal undergrad is like
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chump change compared to my friends who went to private schools
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when I eventually pay it off I'm gonna have a party. It's gonna be great.
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YOU DESERVE IT AFTER THAT MANY YEARS OF LOANS
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also no i was wrong it was <20 wheezes
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thanks, uc system!!!!
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yeah UC Davis for me was like... 9k
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but i only went 2 years
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Academy for 2 1/2 years was around.. 35k i believe.
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i haev it down to the low 20's now.. but nowhere near paid off
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holds ur hand
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i went for 3.5 years cause i got spring admission and noped out to avoid that extra 2-3k for another semester
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like I don't regret school, and I don't wanna take it back, but man it was pricey.
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and the tuition had probably hiked up since you went
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Yeah I graduated 2007 from UCD
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I did end up doing something only tangentally related to my degreee from Academy but I only got hired BECAUSE of the degree...so..
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YEP by 2013 it'd gotten worse sobs
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i also got a pretty decent scholorship. so that helped a lot.
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meanwhile im here trying to leave humanities.... at least my english degree is widely applicable even if i need to do other stuff too
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for UCD not for Academy
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YEAH SCHOLARSHIPS ARE GREAT
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academy I got a sweet grant for being descended from migrant farm workers
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so my debt SHOULD have been like $45k
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just having any degree can ge tyou into lots of things, even if it's unrelated
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"Thank you for your soul, generous mortal"
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basically
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and for uping our diversity quota.
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"Our school has a mexican population of .0063%."
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yeah that's.. that's me
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right there. that's me.
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GOOD JOB, <1% MEXICAN POPULATION
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I DID IT.
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YOU DID IT. YOU LET THEM GOUGE YOUR WALLET
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also i forgot to add but yeah this is how i feel about school
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would it have been easier and cheaper to just do a 2 year program into some kind of healthcare job? yeah, but i wouldnt have gotten to go to college and learned things i liked and grown up into the person i am now