A short first-person anecdote from a speaker who took out student loans to attend massage therapy school, later realizing they were responsible for repayment after receiving bills. The speaker describes initial confusion about loans, admits to ignorance about borrowing and repayment, and frames the experience as an expensive lesson that increased their financial savvy.
I took out student loans to go to school for massage therapy. Yeah, sure, I'll sign whatever. You guys are going to pay for my school. Sure. And then, you know, four years later, I'm getting bills in the mail. I'm like, I'm not going to pay. You guys paid it already. Why would I have to pay for it? I just didn't know. I had no concept of, like, this is a loan. You're borrowing this money. You got to pay it back. So a lot of hard lessons I had to learn on my own and pay for them. I hope I learned from it, but I would say I'm definitely more savvy and wise from those experiences.
