Student Loan Advice.

[steppinthrax]

All those computers OTIS was using in 1880.

You code it once and you're done.

Thanks you can shake a cup on the street now.

You're talking about the older relay based elevators.

I'm talking about the BRAND NEW elevators in office buildings the are LEED certified and have management systems.

Example: Fuzzy logic algorithms that change the elevator behavior throughout the day.
Example: Where exactly is elevator 3/4.
Example: Fault tolerance and software systems that can detect early failures before they occur by listening to the gradual change in nose of an electric motor/electromagnet/chain.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Make a mid 6-figure salary and working on getting my IT business going. No regrets.

So you're making $400 - $600K?

 

[Rumpltzer]

Back to the subject: Consolidate where you can -- I consolidated my federal loans to simplify things. It also afforded me a much lower interest rate.

Private loans (from banks) I paid off first, just leaving the sub/unsub federal loans that I make a single payment towards.

I had less than $25K in loans, and the above is exactly what I did. I consolidated the low interest ones, and I paid off the high (~7%) interest ones (only like $3k) during the 9 month grace period after graduating.