Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello America, it's Eric Erickson here.

How you doing today?

I hope well.

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which needs to be put out of its misery.

I want to talk about student loans.

Full disclosure here, I know of what I speak when it comes to student loans because I had about $200,000 in student loans.

Not the smartest thing that I did. However, let me explain the situation to you. When I was in college, I had to take out a small loan, but when I was in law school, and I mean,

I got mostly a scholarship, almost a full ride in college, so there wasn't a lot.

And then we had my wife's also had a little bit of college loan debt.

Went to private school, didn't go to public school.

Then I went to law school.

And in law school, and I hear

it's the same way, although it's not enforced anymore, but it was fairly enforced when I was in law

school. You were not allowed your first year of law school to have a job. The main reason is because

your first year of law school is a very intense experience.

And they wanted you solely focused on law school.

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