Co-authors Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki combined their efforts to write Why We Want You To Be Rich. This is a good read for any one who wants a different, highly successful look at the concept of money and financial education. However, the two authors repeat the mistakes of their previous books by […]

Once again I’ll be selling some items on eBay to bring in a small amount of money to pay for my out of control student loans. Feel free to bid on these items, but only if you intend to buy them.
Right now I have Gladiator and The Patriot up for sale and depending upon […]

Happy New Year!
Another year gone by and another set of resolutions to put up on the blog, only to break in a few days! Here’s a look at last year’s resolutions.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that there will be anything earth-shattering in this year’s resolutions. Pretty much the same old stuff that I’ve done […]

As you’ll see in my 2007 resolutions, I’m going to take a tough stance against my student loans in the coming year. The fact is that I’m financially bedrocked when it comes to these loans. I can’t buy a house, I can’t move into an upper scale apartment or condo, I can’t get […]

My Citibank Graduate Assist loan just kicked into repayment.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Ugh…
My two consolidated student loans (a Direct Loan and a NJCLASS loan) are both well above the $50,000 mark. This Citibank loan, though, is about $7,500.
So, I’m going to decimate this one in no time. As a matter of fact, I’m putting off all […]

Obviously, no one knows what it’s like to have a ridiculous amount of student loans to pay off more than I do. That’s why I’m pleased to announce a new scholarship that has been established for my fraternity brothers at my undergraduate institution, Monmouth University!
The Delta-Beta Chapter Scholarship will be awarded to an active, […]

Most of you know that I was featured in a USA Today article dealing with student loan debt. Well, like I said yesterday, I’m sick of these bastard student loans and I’m not even halfway through the first year of my 25 year repayment period!
In order to really start combating these loans, I’ve begun […]

If I only knew then what I know now, I would never have taken out student loans to attend college. These fucking things have me bound up by the balls until I can make a considerable dent in them. I looked at buying a small condo last week - there’s no WAY I […]

While I was browsing through a pile of mail last night, I realized that Direct Loans made yet another mistake in processing my consolidation loan. If you can remember, over the summer they goofed up on the terms of the consolidation, marking me down as a 10-year repayer as opposed to the 25-year option […]

After what must have only been a honeymoon period post-loan consolidation, the completely unfriendly, horrible customer service folks at the private-owned New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (NJHESAA) strike again!
This time around, I called to make a payment on my unGodly high student loan with them. When I made the call, I got […]

For anyone looking for a quick update on the “poster child for student loan debt” (thanks to our friends at USA Today) with respect to paying back some of these loans, there’s not much to tell.
I began making my monthly payments to the rotten, poor customer service folks at NJHESAA in July. And while […]

For those of you that don’t know, I started my new job yesterday and it was really a lot of fun. Of course, the first day was packed with “information overload” so I’m still in the process of digesting it all. However, it was a really good day with a lot of new […]