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With finals in full throttle, I decided
to keep this week’s post on the lighter side.
Many people use music – maybe a certain artist or Pandora station – to
immediately turn their brain onto study mode.
But some students are using music to stir up student loan
discussions. One of Beyoncé’s newest
hits Partition has enlivened the
topic of tuition (see, it rhymes).
Chanel Carroll says she “just wants to lead a
debt free life” as she faces off against Sallie Mae in her Beyoncé parody TUITION. She illustrates the strain for some students
who are hounded by private loan companies – comparing them to the mob – because
of accepting additional financing for their education despite having
scholarships and doing well during school – a problem faced by many graduates. Private lenders often have higher interest
rates than the government direct loans and do not offer the extensive grace
periods, repayment options, and protections that government direct loans
provide. Try to avoid this situation by
shopping around for the best loans or avoid taking out
loans altogether.
Another parody of Beyoncé’s Partition, focuses on the rates at which
colleges set their tuition costs. Cruella
de Coco in Tuition is fearful of “paying
off loans until she’s sixty” and pleads colleges to lower their tuition rates. She says, “I thought the point of college was
to get that green, not to be livin off pork and beans.” And, she’s right – that used to be the notion
of going to college. Many students
graduate and feel that they didn’t receive their end of the bargain. It’s important, now more than ever, to do
your research, perform a cost-benefit analysis for going to college and decide
whether the degree of your choice will give you the return on your investment.
If you remember back to my post on selling ad space
to pay off student debt, these women may have come up with another creative
alternative to decreasing their student debt burden. In some cases, YouTube videos that produce
enough hits will receive advertising and can earn money off of clicks. Keep being creative and continue the student
debt discussion!
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