{"id":414,"date":"2026-08-03T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:34:34","slug":"student-loan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/student-loan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Loan Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I realized I never made a post about paying off my second student loan, and now I&#8217;m making this update after paying off my third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of&nbsp;<strong>today, August 3, 2026<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve officially paid off my third student loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was getting my bachelor&#8217;s degree, I took out a total of seven student loans. Here&#8217;s where things stand now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total student loans:<\/strong>&nbsp;7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Paid off:<\/strong>&nbsp;3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Remaining:<\/strong>&nbsp;4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Current balance:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>$7,716.56<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>(assuming your previous balance of $7,966.56 and a $250 payment)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Loan #1<\/strong>&nbsp;was paid off on&nbsp;<strong>March 23, 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Loan #2<\/strong>&nbsp;was paid off on&nbsp;<strong>June 3, 2026<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Loan #3<\/strong>&nbsp;was paid off on&nbsp;<strong>August 3, 2026<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is still the same. I want all four of the remaining student loans gone by the middle of next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three down. Four to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized I never made a post about paying off my second student loan, and now I&#8217;m making this update after paying off my third. As of&nbsp;today, August 3, 2026, I&#8217;ve officially paid off my third student loan. When I was getting my bachelor&#8217;s degree, I took out a total of seven student loans. Here&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"Student Loan Update\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/student-loan-update\/\" aria-label=\"More on Student Loan Update\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}