Graduation May '11, Now enters Sallie Mae! Paying off Loans

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I wonder how she went all through vet school to the very end before it dawned on her that she doesn’t want to be a vet. I guess she didn’t think about the ‘chi-ching’ of those bills racking up for each semester she continued in the program. </p>

<p>Someday she’ll figure out that sometimes people do things they ‘need’ to do even if it’s not the ideal thing they ‘want’ to do at the moment. Whether she gets a job as a vet or a job in the mall she needs to have an action plan to get these loans paid back before they get even larger.</p>

<p>She shouldn’t come up with an action plan to defer the loans - she should come up with an action plan to get a job and start paying the loans back.</p>

<p>I sure hope she isn’t one of the ones I see in the news who’d rather just take up a sign and protest the idea that she should pay back the student loans she decided to take because she doesn’t ‘feel like working’ in her area of training and therefore thinks it’s the taxpayers who should pay it back. </p>

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I agree.</p>

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<p>teachandmom-
like others here have said, I also ‘know of’ my son’s Stafford loan balance and his repayment schedule etc.
That’s because his Dad and I coached him through the loan process from age 17 until now when HE is repaying the loans in his name. No big mystery. He had questions along the way…how much to borrow, accept unsubbed loan?, etc…we supplied some parental wisdom. That’s what parents do, yes?
He asked me to review his loan accounts online as he set up the autodebit. OK, all set.
I don’t have access to his loan accounts online nor this bank accounts. Nor do I want it.
I’m just the Mom…and I help when asked. Parenting adult ‘children’ doesn’t have to have an abrupt end, does it?</p>