{"id":1359,"date":"2022-03-11T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:13:25","slug":"samuel-davenport-iii-nassau-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/samuel-davenport-iii-nassau-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Davenport III, Nassau Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am a first year student at Nassau Community College. Currently, I am studying Liberal Arts, but my goal is to switch to IT. I am paying for school both with unsubsidized loans and out of pocket. However, I am an out-of-state student, so the tuition is double for me. My mom and I are splitting the remaining balance after loans half and half. At first, she was paying it all, but then I got a job and offered to help out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paying for school is far more expensive than I thought, and it\u2019s a challenge working and going to school at the same time. Pretty much all the money I\u2019m making is being dedicated to school. That\u2019s why I try to make sure I\u2019m doing well in school; because the money that my mother and I are spending would go to waste if I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a full time student and work almost full time – about 30 hours a week. It takes a lot of discipline and focus to make sure I can still do well in school while balancing all the hours at work. When I first started working, I thought I would only be working 20 hours a week, but I needed to increase my hours to help pay for school. If I had the option, I would only work 20 hours, so that I could spend my time doing readings for class and getting a really good handle on the material. Balancing school, work, sleep, and personal time is definitely not easy, but with a lot of dedication and determination, it\u2019s manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being at a commuter school in a suburban area makes transportation hard too. Depending on the day of the week, I either borrow my cousin\u2019s car, someone drops me off at school, or I get an Uber. However, I uber more than anything else. I usually spend about $60 a week on Ubers, but the real money issue is tuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a first year student at Nassau Community College. Currently, I am studying Liberal Arts, but my goal is to switch to IT. I am paying for school both with unsubsidized loans and out of pocket. However, I am an out-of-state student, so the tuition is double for me. My mom and I are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[16,18,19,36,126],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nassau-community-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-job","tag-student-loans","tag-transit","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}