You can switch plans but each time you do, the interest capitalizes. If you are getting forgiveness it will be discharged regardless at 120 payments but it's worth knowing. You can compare and estimate payments for plans here https://studentloanhero.com/ which should give you ballpark figures. Source: almost 2 years ago

When do you finish school? If you have loans with multiple levels of forgiveness, consolidating will bring them all to the highest count. At this point it needs to be done before October. I wouldn't consolidate the Perkins loans because qualify employers can allow you to defer and forgive a percentage annually until they're forgiven over 4 years. I think the only disadvantage is that if you were to pursue an... Source: about 2 years ago

Another great solution that looks really nice (although harder to setup) is Winds https://getstream.io/winds/. Source: over 1 year ago

Winds by stream(https://getstream.io/winds/) is now shut down but I did enjoy using it to manage all my RSS feeds. Good thing it's open source been considering self hosting. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

So, I was looking for cool and open source/free RSS readers and found Winds, but I noticed that the GitHub repo said "This repository is no longer maintained; No further Issues or Pull Requests will be considered or approved" and now is completely archived. Source: over 2 years ago