I have a confession to make. What the hell, let’s make it two. First and foremost, headlines are fun to write. You should try it sometime if you haven’t before. Second, I lied about my student loans. There, I said it. It’s out there, so now I guess I have some explaining to do.
When I, Broke Grad Student, started Broke Grad Student 8 months ago, I was really struggling to come up with a tagline. All I could think of was stupid stuff like “Tales of Ramenhood” or “…at least I’m not going for a PhD”. At one point, I considered just giving up and not having a tagline at all.
Eventually, I came up with the idea for my current tagline, and this is when my pants caught on fire. As descriptive as it is, “Adventures in paying back $21,863.57 in student loans” just doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, so I took a little creative liberty and rounded the number down to $20,000 without thinking about the future repercussions. The main one being that the numbers in my progress bar would be off by about $2000 up until now.
Well, I’m happy to announce that today, I’m finally ready to tell the truth and admit to the rest of the world that I really started with $22,000 in student loans, not $20,000. To satisfy the really picky readers, the exact balance was $22,012.63. While I hope that I haven’t upset any of my readers by doing this, I can understand if I did. Even though I can’t undo what I’ve done, those of you who are upset can at least get some satisfacation out of the fact that I lost a really nice pair of pants in that fire.
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Laura 07.28.08 at 4:35 am
Don’t feel bad. I love reading your blog and will continue to do so. I’m sorry about your lost of a pair of pants.
mfaorbust 07.28.08 at 8:10 am
BGS, thanks for coming totally clean. But to totally regain your readers’ trust, I think it would only be fair for you to include the price of a new pair of pants in your exact balance.
;]
Mrs. Micah 07.28.08 at 10:54 am
Shoot, I don’t know if I wrote the exact balance of Micah’s on the blog either. But $100k + works.
(ok, it doesn’t work because it’s mounds and mounds…but it’s true.)
Broke Grad Student 07.28.08 at 10:37 pm
Laura: Thanks for the support.
mfaorbust: Haha, I like your thinking.
Mrs. Micah: I forgot about the mighty + … that could have easily solved my problem and saved a perfectly good pair of pants.
Carol 07.30.08 at 7:51 pm
Oh, the shame, you rascal.
Okay, I’m over it.
Broke Grad Student 07.30.08 at 9:29 pm
Carol: Glad to see you back here. The comments just haven’t quite been the same without you around.
Value For Your Life 08.02.08 at 9:01 am
Dude…no worries…except of course for the lost pants.
Amanda
P.S. Catchy title!
NtJS 08.06.08 at 9:49 am
What’s a few thousand dollars in debt among friends? But really, people will bust you on math every time. Grammar too.
Broke Grad Student 08.06.08 at 9:57 am
NtJS: On another blog, I had a friend of a relative try to bust me on grammar. She’s a teacher and eloquently left a comment as the “Grammar Police”. After a little Googling, it turns out she was wrong, and my grammar was fine.
Kathryn 08.08.08 at 8:07 am
Forgiven.
Patrick 08.25.08 at 5:33 am
So what happened to the pants? ow that would have been an interesting story.