Right now, Federal Stafford Loan interest rates are at the lowest that they have ever been -- 2.82% in-school, 3.42% after the loan goes into repayment. And if you consolidate the loan using a Federal Consolidation Loan, the consolidation loan gets fixed at the Stafford Loan's current interest rate (rounded to the next eighth), so you can get a 2.875% loan immune from future interest rate increases. It's pretty sweet, but note that you are also immune from interest rate decreases, so if rates rise a lot by the time you are ready to consolidate, consolidation might not be such a hot idea. (However, the interest rate could only go about 1.1% lower than it is right now, even in theory, and that would require a 91-day T-Bill at zero percent.)
But for the moment, anyway, Federal Stafford Loans and Federal Consolidation are a wonderful thing. Not as wonderful as free money, but a heck of a lot better than credit cards.
And yeah, I do student financial aid for a living, so I'd be remiss if I didn't say: be sure to check with your school's Financial Aid Office for more details.
I suspect that the max weight on the Insight is more of "here's how we got the mpg rating we did" than "366 pounds will break the car". There's a FAQ at InsightCentral which contends that "Honda tells us that the 365 lb figure is based on obtaining optimal performance and fuel efficiency, and that the car won't be damaged by exceeding this limit."
Good tip on Thomas Distributing. I got the Maha C204F AA/AAA charger from them a couple of years ago, and I still swear by it. I don't really care much about battery brands, but I like to buy multiple brands so that I can keep groups of batteries separate.
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But for the moment, anyway, Federal Stafford Loans and Federal Consolidation are a wonderful thing. Not as wonderful as free money, but a heck of a lot better than credit cards.
And yeah, I do student financial aid for a living, so I'd be remiss if I didn't say: be sure to check with your school's Financial Aid Office for more details.
I suspect that the max weight on the Insight is more of "here's how we got the mpg rating we did" than "366 pounds will break the car". There's a FAQ at InsightCentral which contends that "Honda tells us that the 365 lb figure is based on obtaining optimal performance and fuel efficiency, and that the car won't be damaged by exceeding this limit."
Good tip on Thomas Distributing. I got the Maha C204F AA/AAA charger from them a couple of years ago, and I still swear by it. I don't really care much about battery brands, but I like to buy multiple brands so that I can keep groups of batteries separate.