Ever since I started paying back my student loans some 20 months ago, I’ve been complaining about how inept and downright rude the people at the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority are on the telephone. Not only do they treat you like you are trying to get away with something, but they […]

With all of this talk about the subprime mortgage market meltdown, I hope that this country doesn’t forget about the student loan scandals that are silently rocking higher education. Just as people were duped into loans that were bad for them, many students were duped into consolidating with organizations that provided a kickback to […]

For those of you who listen to the Howard Stern show, you’ll recognize the title of this post as Chris Rock’s reaction to learning that Howard Stern was engaged to be married. Hilarious! I felt that the quote was appropriate to verbalize what some of my friends and former classmates will think when […]

Happy New Year! First things first… It’s 2008 - can you believe it? It’s funny, I distinctly remember being a little kid and watching the ball drop to ring in 1986. But that was over 20 years ago in my family’s Manhattan apartment! Now on to the annual self-consuming resolutions!
Faith
For a […]

Every year I like to beat myself up by taking a look back at my New Year’s Resolutions from last year and whether or not 365 days have been enough time to accomplish them! So here we go…
Last year I stated that I wanted to pay off my smallest student loan, which was from […]

There are only a few issues out there that I am overly passionate about. Among the highest on my list are student loans and how the great increase in student loans are slowly eroding the very concept of The American Dream. It’s frightening.
The team at USA Today has been on the front line […]

As I travel around the internet and read some of the many horror stories that are emerging about young people who take on too much student loan debt, I can’t help but make a few comments about my own situation. First of all, if you don’t know my student loan situation, it made front […]

Since I feel the need to update you folks on my student loan payments, today I made a sizable payment on one of my loans. So the smallest of my loans - the $6000 Citibank Loan - will hopefully be paid in full by mid-June.
Getting this loan, which has the highest interest rate, paid […]

One of the jobs that I gave myself as a volunteer for my fraternity is to create a few scholarship funds. My drive behind comes from a few different sources. First, I have some of the worst student loan debt in America (which has been documented in USA Today). So if I […]

This past December, I had my truck in the shop for a few days and it cost me about a grand in various repairs. Well, here we go again…
For those of you in New Jersey, you know we had a bitch of a snow and ice storm last Friday. I was driving around […]

During the month of January, I found myself getting more and more morose on a much more frequent basis. It was sort of scary. I’m not quite sure what brought about the brooding, ill-foreboding demeanor, but I do know that it was starting to effect my work and my personal life. Some […]

A few weeks back (early December), I wrote a post talking about a scholarship fund that I helped establish for brothers of Sigma Pi Fraternity at Monmouth University. Well, I’m at it again, but this time on a bit of a bigger scale.
I’m proud and excited to announce the creation of The NJ Province […]