http://www.thebrokeyuppie.com trudging slowly toward solvency. Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:32:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So it happened: the dreaded day when my student loans all entered repayment. I was slammed with a $544 bill from one of my lenders - a third of my take-home monthly salary. Last weekend I applied for a consolidation loan from the U.S. Department of Ed., but have yet ... http://www.thebrokeyuppie.com/2009/06/30/dealing-with-student-debt-forbearance-and-deferment/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By wsssst, via Flickr"][/caption] The student-loan bills keep rolling in. Week after week, month after month, loan after loan - they seem endless. I accumulated nine separate student loans during my academic career, and many of them are on different billing schedules with different monthly payments and different ... http://www.thebrokeyuppie.com/2009/06/21/dealing-with-student-debt-consolidation/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Jeff Parker, Florida Today"][/caption] Let's start with the basics: Which loans are available to graduate students, and how much you should expect to pay for them once you've finished school. I'm not going to spend any time telling you how to get the loans. The Internet is ... http://www.thebrokeyuppie.com/2009/06/16/dealing-with-student-debt-student-loans-defined/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By stevechasmar, via Flickr"][/caption] The main source of my financial woes is the more than $55,000 of student-loan debt, the majority of it from grad school, that I must pay off bit by bit each month. I finished grad school in December, and since then the loan companies ... http://www.thebrokeyuppie.com/2009/06/06/why-october-scares-me/