{"id":1618,"date":"2024-01-12T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:04:09","slug":"marihana-heloany-reis-suny-purchase-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/marihana-heloany-reis-suny-purchase-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Marihana Heloany Reis, Purchase College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/storybank-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1620\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8894927536231884;width:374px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/storybank-1-1.jpg 491w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/storybank-1-1-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am a sophomore Political Sciences Major. After graduating I want to get a master&#8217;s and a PHD to become a professor. The price of tuition was one of the obstacles that I faced to go back to school. For me, as an immigrant being here by myself, the dream of achieving higher education had to be on hold for more than 4 years, so I could save enough money to be able to afford it, since I could not apply for financial aid. This situation affects many of the population, but especially Latinos and African Americans. If the education was free and funded, I could have already graduated and become one step forward to following my dream. Unaffordable higher education hurts the racialized and marginalized population, a lot of times keeping us in the poverty cycle. I believe in a high quality and free higher education for all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a sophomore Political Sciences Major. After graduating I want to get a master&#8217;s and a PHD to become a professor. The price of tuition was one of the obstacles that I faced to go back to school. For me, as an immigrant being here by myself, the dream of achieving higher education had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48],"tags":[16,126],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-purchase-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}