"GregP" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:30:07 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


From our "In fairness, though...." department:

This door swings both ways. Rumor has it that sometimes both individual
institutions of higher learning and the United States Department of
Education have to wait a wee bit for their money too.

Wolfgang
who has passed both ways through that door.


Yeah, I got mine a hell of a lot quicker than I paid it back....
and I used mine to buy an old van. I was going to go cross
country in it, but never got further than NH (probably because
I went in the wrong direction).


The most creative (and educational) use of student loans I ever heard of was
a friend of mine, who shall remain nameless. He used his student loans to
buy a nice new sports car, which he drove to Florida and traded for an old
jalopy with a trunkful of hashish. Which he drove (at speed limit) back to
New England and sold in small amounts for enough of a profit to buy a nice
chunk of land alongside a whitewater river, as well as enough boats and gear
to start a river company, which he ran successfully for a dozen years or so
until he got such a lucrative offer on the whole thing that he sold it, paid
off the student loan, bought himself another new sports car, another chunk
of property in town, and lived happily ever after.

--riverman