Latest from FSA: 4 Common Student Loan Mistakes

Nicole Callahan, a new media analyst at FSA, is nearing the two year anniversary of beginning her student loan repayment. She recently wrote a blog post for the Department of Education discussing the things she wishes she had known before starting repayment. Here are the top four lessons she has learned:

1. I should have kept track of what I was borrowing.
2. I should have made interest payments while I was still in school.
3. I should have kept my loan servicer in the loop.
4. I should have figured out what my monthly loan payments were going to be BEFORE I went into repayment.

Read more in the original blog post: http://www.ed.gov/blog/2013/11/4-common-student-loan-mistakes/.

Kristin Tobias, Communications Coordinator, Nelnet