I made the last payment on my student loans today!
When I started grad school in 2009, I had about 20k in student loan and car debt. I finished my MS, and am shooting to wrap up the PhD next year, and I have paid off all my debt (On a research stipend of about 20k until I started at NASA in August). I was already on the path when I started reading MMM, but some facepunching still helped speed me along :-)