A student loan expert takes her own advice
(WorldNews Business)

When you spend your days dispensing advice about student loans, you learn a thing or two about navigating the system. In the 10 years it took me to repay $40,000 in federal student loans and interest, I never found any secret tricks. But I did find ways to make the system work. At times I made no payments, and I reduced payments at others. The only extra payment I made was the most satisfying one at the very end. My credit never took a ding, and I never used any Hail Mary tactics. I never boomeranged back home, no one left me money and no one I dated wanted to make payments for me. What I did do was use the system – a complex, frustrating...