Flying the Family-Friendly Skies: Hawaiian Airlines With Kids
Last month was our second trip to Hawaii as a family of 4!
We are two adults, one 12 year-old, and one 21 month-old (who completed his 27th flight as a “lap baby” on this trip).
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Goodbye, Student Loans!
In February of this year, I made some calls to the lovely folks at the Department of Education and Student Aid and confirmed that from 2005 to 2013 I took out almost $350,000 IN STUDENT LOANS!
A Brief History of My Loans
The exact total amount of money I borrowed for school – including tuition, fees, supplies, and “cost of living” funds – was $347,634.
That total is principal only and includes none of the interest accumulation, which was quite significant over the course of all those years.
The loans were dispersed between 2005, when I started dental school, and 2013, when I finished my specialty residency.
I had no debt coming out of undergrad, which I finished in 3 years at an in-state university. I got an academic scholarship and worked two jobs during college. And before that I went to a public high school and worked at a bakery, in case anyone is keeping score.