Using Federal Student Loans to Invest in Market

I'm currently a senior at a private university who's parents use a 529 to pay for all of my tuition expenses. I'm going into my last semester this spring and have locked down a $100k+ base-paying job that starts full time in august.

I am wondering if I could possibly take on $10,000 in student loans in addition to the 529 paying all of my college expenses ( the loan is federally backed at low rates hopefully?) that I can then use to invest over the next half year + and eventually retire using the 529 plan.

Thoughts on this? Is it legal to take out student debt and use it to do whatever? How would you recommend I suggest this to my financially illiterate family

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