{"id":194,"date":"2017-05-08T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:45:36","slug":"nelson-suny-new-paltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/nelson-suny-new-paltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson, SUNY New Paltz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I enrolled myself in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and basically, it looks at the amount of money my parents make in a year and based on that, it allows me to apply for special grants and pays off my entire tuition. It also supplies each student with money to buy textbooks each semester. Textbooks are pretty expensive and most times I wouldn\u2019t be able to afford them without the EOP program. Also, the program provides a library of books that we can borrow from instead of buying and anyone is allowed to donate to this library. If it wasn\u2019t for EOP, I definitely wouldn\u2019t be in school, hands down. I wouldn’t be able to afford it at all and even if I was able to afford it, I wouldn’t be able to do it without my EOP tutors, counselors, directors and all their support. <\/span><\/p>\n

After moving off campus, I found myself struggling a lot with affording food. I didn\u2019t realize how hard that would be. I also found myself struggling to pay for my phone bill and other necessities. There are times where I wasn\u2019t able to pay and I wouldn’t be able to use my phone to hear back from programs or jobs I was applying to. I\u2019ve had to take on two jobs during my time at school. It\u2019s kinda hard to balance work and school at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enrolled myself in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and basically, it looks at the amount of money my parents make in a year and based on that, it allows me to apply for special grants and pays off my entire tuition. It also supplies each student with money to buy textbooks each semester. Textbooks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[17,27,72,20],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suny-new-paltz","tag-eop","tag-food-costs","tag-opportunity-program","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}