Interesting, that's something I didn't know. Wouldn't have helped or motivated me to do this even if it had been possible :P But I'm not sure which student loa

Interesting, that's something I didn't know. Wouldn't have helped or motivated me to do this even if it had been possible :P But I'm not sure which student loans you're talking about, but back when I was studying BAföG was a different beast. You usually don't get much and it all depends on your parents' income and in general I found the bureaucracy very... annoying, because my case worker was extremely incompetent, had to hand in stuff twice all the time, had to point out errors in all the calculations and every time I was there I only heard complaints how my case was so complicated.. That said, it's a good thing and if you find any decent job you shouldn't have too many problems paying it off very soon without a lot of interest payments. (But I also had to pay fees for a few semesters back then, I think they're mostly gone again now...)