Posted on April 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm I am a US Army veteran and when  I separated from service, I decided I would go to college. I enrolled in an online degree that would last approx. 14 months. I was working part-time for a little while, but then decided to stay home and just concentrate on school. I was receiving disbursements from my GI Bill which I really should have used to pay directly to the school for my tuition. However, I decided to live on this money because I wasn't working and applied for student loans.  6 months after completing my degree I had to start making payments on these loans...and now when I look back on it...I made a big mistake!!! Why didn't I just keep working so that I could live? In reality, more than 3/4 of my house bills were being paid by my husband (only boyfriend at the time--we lived together) I only really had to worry about my individual bills. Each month I'm paying about $150 towards my almost $13,000 loan....WOW That money could sooooo being going somewhere else if I had just spent my GI BILL money differently.

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 1:50 am Thanks for sharing. I might warn my boyfriend about it. =) That amount is indeed huge, and you can do lots of thing with it.

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 4:05 am experiences are those which u earn by doing mistakes. but by the time u have it its worthless for u most of the times. its good if u can pass it on :)

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 10:20 pm It happens.  But at least you learned a valuable lesson from this experience.  That counts for something, I suppose.

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm All of us   mistake  but at least you have learned something. Next time you know what and how to do it. good luck

Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:12 am Thats okay. We learn from our own mistakes. "Experience is the best teacher"