Amortize

Amortize [verb] (uh mohr tiez)

1. To diminish by installment payments
   

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There are few things more satisfying than when you amortize your college loans.   One installment at a time that gargantuan number - a so-called equivalent to the education you received - lessens until, one day, there is nothing left.

I dream of that day.

Until then, I continue to pay one day at a time.  Each payment is a baby step, but one day it will be a downhill sprint. 

Here's hoping.