So I decided to head on over to my student loan website today at lunch.
It was 100% not a good decision.
See, I’ve been on the website before when I first started graduate school. I wanted to make sure that everything was set up correctly, blah, blah, blah. But at the time, they didn’t have the loan repayment terms.
They do now.
It isn’t pretty.
Talk about depressing. Dang, it was definitely better not knowing anything about the loans. I guess the good thing was that when I talked to the customer service person, we figured out how much I should be paying monthly while in school (my repayment doesn’t even start until 01/2013) to completely ward off any upcoming interest and pay off the current interest on the loans. It isn’t too much, and I’m sure I can squish it into my budget, but it does not cheer me up any. Not one bit.
Moral of the story: Ignorance is bliss.
I hear you! I didn’t even know how much I owed on my student loan until I finished university – stupid me. I should have sorted it out much sooner, but since I didn’t *have* to pay until then – I just pretended it didn’t exist! One more year and it should be paid off, though! YAY!