I've now paid off two of the four private student loans I took out from a Lehman's Brothers-based company called Campus Door (which eventually got bought out by Wells Fargo)...many more federal loans to go after that, but it's always a small little victory when I see a loan balance of zero. I made the decision to make postponements on my federal loans so I could focus on the private ones because they often have a higher interest rate and they are able to make rules that federal one can't. Namely, three months before I graduated, I was told I didn't have a grace period because the amount of times I changed school bit into that.

I'm just glad I didn't take out from Sallie Mae. Yeesh.