In which I realize I miscalculated my loan amount by 11K
OH DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN WHY THE HELL AM I SO STUPID?!?
My total loan amount is actually $31,386!!
How did I miscalculate so badly?! I guess with all the moving I’ve done lately I must have misplaced the papers or mail or whatever it is that had the actual total … but OH GOD! Where did this other $11,000 come from?
There I was, quitely reading Suze Orman’s The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, when I came across the section on the importance of paying off student loans without defaulting. Orman gives two sources where you can find out the details about your loans, “if you don’t have a clue about your paperwork.” They are National Student Clearing House Loan Locator and the National Student Loan Data System. But the first one doesn’t work. Apparently the NSCH doesn’t do the loan locator thing anymore. So I went with the second one, the NSLD one.
And I looked. And oh dear I almost died. Since when did it cost that much to go to a public school? I’m going to have to do some major research on what I can do to deal with this…
I cannot buy another thing ever again.
