{"id":1319,"date":"2021-12-01T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:46:36","slug":"jordan-gibberman-purchase-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/jordan-gibberman-purchase-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Gibberman, Purchase College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Jordan-Gibberman-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Jordan-Gibberman-Headshot.png 237w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Jordan-Gibberman-Headshot-139x300.png 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Jordan Gibberman and I am a student at&nbsp; SUNY Purchase. My experiences paying for college all began in the summer of 2018 before freshman year. My family and I had to apply for student loans all because I decided to live on campus. We didn\u2019t have a lot of money to afford housing and meal plans, so the loans were the only option. We applied for a federal loan that my school offered us, but even that wasn\u2019t enough. Additionally, we applied for a private loan from College Ave. In other words, I have two different kinds of student loans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would last up to the midpoint of the Spring 2020 semester, when I transitioned to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, I came to an important realization that going away to school is super expensive and staying at home is just right for me. So, my family and I stopped applying for student loans and focused on paying for school with financial aid, along with the Excelsior scholarship that I had throughout my whole college experience. That scholarship only helped me cover the tuition, and the only reason I qualified for it was because I go to a SUNY school and the governor at the time created it for students who want to go to SUNY schools, but have low household income.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I certainly hope I qualify for student loan forgiveness. That would be a huge benefit for me as I would only be paying back less than what I currently owe, which honestly isn\u2019t that much compared to what students normally would have during normal times. Overall, I wish I didn\u2019t have to go through this experience paying for college &#8212; it\u2019s honestly one of the reasons why I often think about if I should\u2019ve gone to college or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jordan Gibberman and I am a student at&nbsp; SUNY Purchase. My experiences paying for college all began in the summer of 2018 before freshman year. My family and I had to apply for student loans all because I decided to live on campus. We didn\u2019t have a lot of money to afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,263,48],"tags":[244,258,217,19],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate-district-8","category-assembly-district-14","category-purchase-college","tag-covid-19","tag-excelsior","tag-room-and-board","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}