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Studying isn't cheap. Looking at a Student Loan

From day one you will be hit with varsity fees, the insane cost of textbooks and a campus full of hotties with potential to suck your bank account. Dry before the first date has even begun. If your parents are tired of you leaching off them, you also have to factor in rent (food, laundry and electricity). As a student, you go out more than ever. You spend money on beer and cigarettes and gum and takeaways and condoms and airtime and redbull and noodles and other random shite than at any other time in your life. A student loan can help you pay for all these expenses. But it's really important to make sure that you know the ins and outs, before you sign on the dotted line.

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