![Ive Spent $60,000 to Pay Back Student Loans and Owe More Than Before I Began Ive Spent $60,000 to Pay Back Student Loans and Owe More Than Before I Began](https://realnews.today/media/19webster-articleLarge-310x168.jpg)
When I finished school in 2007 — with an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s in science journalism — I owed $78,060 in federal loans. I was actually relieved: my loans were below $100,000, a number that seemed like the line between manageable and unmanageable debt.