What's so secret about being a college student?

Ah, I remember my first day off college like it was yesterday. Fresh from graduating high school and living up in Steamboat Springs. Going up to the pass to party, building sled runs in the backyard, snowboarding. Nobody ever told me how much fun you can have at college, I mean you see stuff in the movies. You are like that's not real life is like.

You get away and can't help yourself. All the time you are having a blast you have a monkey on your back. No idea it's there until you have to make that first payment, but what payment? Those student loans you took out while in school, well they need to be repaid. This is never shown in the movies, because who wants to talk about the real life of a college student? Eating basic meals just to get by, or choosing between rent and gas. 

Just this week congress approved a $700 billion defense budget! I am grateful for our military, but according to Forbes, $1.7 Trillion is where we are in student loan debt, the article here was written in February of this year and says that it's right behind mortgages. So your top two debts will most likely be the, home you live in paved by the school debt to get there.