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I knew my student loan was getting close to being paid off, so I just logged in to the Direct Loan Servicing page and discovered I only owed $22.88 more. I went ahead and click on the “Make Online Payment” and now I’m free and clear with the government.

I’m lucky that my loan wasn’t that large in the first place (due to scholarships, assistantships, and generous parents who didn’t have to pay as much for my two slacker brothers). I don’t know how I’d have managed to pay back what many of my friends borrowed, especially on my current salary.

And Jeff is now making more of a dent in repaying his law school loans since he moved in (rent-free) with me.

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Joe of Joe.My.God (one of my favorite NYC Bloggers) has been posting about 9/11 this week and two of his images really hit home for me.

I’ve always felt a sense of disconnect with the attacks because I never thought at the time (living in rural Missouri) that I’d someday (2 years later) move to New York City, much less 3 blocks away from Ground Zero. I never saw the Twin Towers in person, it’s tough for me to imagine their presence towering over the Financial District (or how they would have been visible out my new apartment window).

In Joe’s post about the day itself, he included this photo he took. It’s one of the first I’ve seen with recognizable landmarks (the corner dipicted is visible out my old apartment window) that helps me to understand what my landscape would have been like had I been there.

The second image is a child’s drawing, posted on a fence, that Joe saved from a sudden thunderstorm.

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