Goodbye Student Loan
Posted
A monumental milestone in my life. My student loan is repaid. The “wee stopsie” is in place and Glasgow’s
most efficient company have stopped taking payments.
most efficient company have stopped taking payments.
Yes I actually went to university back in 1998. Left in 2000 voluntarily without a
degree. I achieved many things in that
time, including learning that just putting your name on an exam paper doesn’t
get you a mark, that discrimination against common Northern oiks by the future
landowners of this country is endemic, men get stalkers too, that there is not
a limit to the hours that should be spent playing Championship Manager, that 2
bottles of wine for £5 is a very fun evening and that the only way that you can
get to lectures after a night at Utopia is when you have to get the notes for a
friend (me and a close friend had the genius idea to go to lectures every other
day so we wouldn’t miss any notes and only had to attend half of the lectures – it worked).
I also reversed my Hull schooling and discovered that foreigners, gays
and those of a different skin colour were actually nice people too.
degree. I achieved many things in that
time, including learning that just putting your name on an exam paper doesn’t
get you a mark, that discrimination against common Northern oiks by the future
landowners of this country is endemic, men get stalkers too, that there is not
a limit to the hours that should be spent playing Championship Manager, that 2
bottles of wine for £5 is a very fun evening and that the only way that you can
get to lectures after a night at Utopia is when you have to get the notes for a
friend (me and a close friend had the genius idea to go to lectures every other
day so we wouldn’t miss any notes and only had to attend half of the lectures – it worked).
I also reversed my Hull schooling and discovered that foreigners, gays
and those of a different skin colour were actually nice people too.
I definitely had a drink or ten every night and may have
indulged in the smoking of a cannabis spliff but I did not exhale. Honest.
It was peer pressure.
indulged in the smoking of a cannabis spliff but I did not exhale. Honest.
It was peer pressure.
Looking back I wish student fees were as high as they are
now as I would have thought more sensibly about what to do – Maths? What was I thinking. Oh it was boring. I did gain two excellent life-long friends
and those that know how important friends are to me will know that I view my
£6.5k loan as an investment in life.
now as I would have thought more sensibly about what to do – Maths? What was I thinking. Oh it was boring. I did gain two excellent life-long friends
and those that know how important friends are to me will know that I view my
£6.5k loan as an investment in life.
Annoyingly thanks to Reading Council’s ineptitude I am not
debt-free as I dreamed and still have a large balance of overpaid housing
benefit to pay back before I am debt free.
Perhaps slightly my stupidity too.
debt-free as I dreamed and still have a large balance of overpaid housing
benefit to pay back before I am debt free.
Perhaps slightly my stupidity too.
Now all I have to do is reclaim any overpayment from the
Scottish. Och eye.
Scottish. Och eye.
Tagged: