How Not to Handle Your Student Loans

Last week the Chicago Tribune posted an article on the ticking time bomb that is student loan debt. They called it the next “economic doomsday scenario” and then they profiled a 2007 grad who is having trouble paying her student loans and keeping her financial commitments. For those of you graduating this year, I want to [...]

Trouble Consolidating Sallie Mae Loans, Part 2: I talk to Sallie Mae

I feel for recent grads reeling from student loan sticker shock. After all, I’m still in repayment, more than seven years after graduation, for all the courses, parties, bad food, cramped dorm rooms and heavy books that gave me the sweetest – and shortest – four years of my life. So when my newly minted [...]

Trouble Consolidating Sallie Mae Loans, Part 1

A few weeks ago, my super talented, creative and beautiful cousin, K, 23, called me in tears. She just graduated from the Harrington Institute of Design in Chicago, and like most of us, was blown away by the cost of her monthly payments on her loans. She went to see her family’s banker to find [...]

Simply College Answers Our Student Loan Q’s

While I typically spend my weekends dining, drinking and catching up with friends at social functions, I spent much of this weekend at the Kellogg School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Workshop in Evanston, Ill. Kellogg is one of the world’s top business schools, and I was honored to be a participant. The session featured valuable [...]

Student Loans: A Primer

Based on my latest rant about student loans, an anonymous reader posted this question: Q: I’m an avid reader of your blog and I appreciate your sound ability to put the financial jargon in lamen’s terms. But your current blog does not apply to me yet, so I was wondering if you could lead future [...]

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