09-04-2011, 11:09 AM
Stella Grapes Wrote:With the exception of my half-sister, my siblings and I have had to pay for college ourselves. This was impossible and threw us into decades of debt that would have probably lasted a lifetime had luck not changed. Despite this, I took more college courses because I figured that if I was going to spend my life in debt, I might as well get the tools to spend my life doing something I actually enjoyed. It is very rare that one can make a whole career out of performing.
I'm probably going to spend 10 years or more in college debt myself since most of my tuition payments have consisted of student loans. This year, I was lucky enough to get federal financial aid, but it won't cover the entire cost of this years' tuition, so I have to take out another loan.

This past summer, I had to deal with bill collectors from the companies that gave me the student loans because when I took a year off from DSU, they thought I ended college for good, and after the six month grace period, they began calling up asking for payment. I had to fill out 10 or more forbearance forms, and also had to notify the nearby community college when I went there last fall so they could tell these companies I was still in school, but at a different one.
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