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I am still paying off my law student loans from the University of Minnesota. It was my 25th re-union a few months ago. Of course, I have a very unique story and I did use the work I did fighting for access to practical information for survivors/victims of crimes in all of the US states as well as abroad from 1992 through 2000 to get my MA in Librarianship and Information Management loans forgiven back around 2000. I went to the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management and received my MA in May, 1984. The Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education offered a Stipend Grant that they would pay for a majority of the tuition (out of state fees waived for WICHE people) of people in fields that did not have schools accredited in certain areas of study. Nevada had no professional librarianship program. So, I signed a contract to pay back WICHE by working as a librarian in Nevada for a set number of years. I tried to get employment in Nevada as a Librarian but failed but I did pursue my survivors/victims of crimes project (224 613) which did affect the state of Nevada as I was advocating for victims/survivors rights to practical information in libraries of all kinds in EVERY US state as well as in various US territories. Of course, I sent WICHE a lot of letters, documents, e-mails backing up my claims to doing meaningful work. (unpaid though).

Too bad I cannot think of a way to apply such PRO BONO work (really at me and my family's expense) to my law school student loans.

I worked my way through various schools for my two BAs from the University of Nevada, Reno (1980,1981); Spanish at the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, CA (1985?-1986?); MA from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (Class of 1984) as well as from the University of Minnesota Law School. (Class of 1989). I could not cover all the expenses for all this education. I also took Russian, Reading German, Reading Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Reading Dutch to help as a Cataloger of Foreign Materials at the University of Minnesota Law School Library. I had to drop some of these Foreign Language classes as they were a little too much work right after graduating from Law School in 1989. I did succeed with Reading Dutch and Reading German but failed the Reading Italian and dropped out of the other language classes.

If you want to know the hurdles, tactics, etc. I used in the survivors/victims of crimes project I talk quite a lot about them on TOTV. And, I mentioned them with documents to support my claims while I was posting on FINDLAW's message boards from July 2001 or so through about March 2006. I also sent some of these documents back around March 13, 2014-- but only really a small selection-- to the ObamaCare people because obviously if I am still paying off Law Student Loans from 25 years ago, I cannot afford medical insurance.