Comments | ddelapp: Student Debt Free

ddelapp

Student Debt Free

Oct 14, 2008 15:18

I wanted to make a post to commemorate an event, special to me, that happened today. Exactly four years, one month, three weeks and two days after finishing college, I have paid off the last of my student loan debt. Once the appropriate parties have completed their transactions, I will be student debt free ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

brisrealm October 14 2008, 22:58:59 UTC

congrats! i look forward to joining you 30 years from now!;)

ddelapp October 15 2008, 18:30:06 UTC

Hopefully sooner. Let's sell a script!

ajamison October 15 2008, 00:59:19 UTC

Very cool. It's going to be a much longer road for me, but hey, I'm doing what I love! Congrats.

ddelapp October 15 2008, 18:35:38 UTC

Thanks. Keep it up. I'm trying to ignore that a common dream for our generation is not just "buy a house" or "get a good job" but is also "pay off the mountain of debt I was saddled with by my university education."

yo_adrienne1 October 15 2008, 20:07:30 UTC

Congrats! I was so excited the day I wrote the check to pay off my student loan. Now, 10 years later, I have approximately 11 months until I rebuild that mountain of debt in nursing school. :P

ddelapp October 15 2008, 21:11:19 UTC

Eesh. That's not fun. Well, if there was one thing I know now that I wish I knew then, it's using 0% APR credit cards to offset student loan interest.