Surviving Student Loans and College Debt

its simple really colleges are a big rip off unless financial aid covers for it don't go and never take out "loans". they just scam people and make a living off of you while you pay off those "loans" on hidden interest rates. I'm not even going to start with this college shit why do you have to spend 50k to 200k to go somewhere where you learn how to memorize useless shit then get "tested" for it and won't ever use that "education" and forget most of it anyway give me a fucking break.

Yeah--I have a degree in accounting that I haven't used for anything. I mostly lost interest in the subject after I graduated and had some office jobs that I HATED. I'm just glad that I went to a school that was cheap at the time. Today's 20-somethings are a "lost generation" with big student loan debt and few jobs out there waiting for them. I thought they were more "street smart" than that. Instead they were scammed into going to college and wasting all that money.

Now they tell me

I took out loans and today paying back loans to the government is like paying back the mafia. If you don`t have a job or the money to pay, they will take it our of your paycheck when you do work and take your income tax return money and then after years of paying them through garnishments, they can and will sell your loans to a finance company for 24 percent interest wheither you like it or not. They won`t even tell you before they sell them. All the U.S. is about is MONEY

Espcially having a history degree with a job working as a barista, and set back with 40,000 dollars!  I laugh because I worked as a security guard and graduated debt free, and even had a savings. After 1 year out, I now have 50,000 sitting in my bank account

This is exactly the reason why Im doing pre-med/pre-pharm.

So I won't have to worry about bullcrap.

Are you serious DrBones666? I'm a sophomore taking out my second amount of loans and already I'm bugging out about it.

Financial award? grant package? marketing words!! call it what is - a financial setback, a debt burden.