{"id":206,"date":"2017-05-09T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=206"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:51:26","slug":"kevin-twardzik-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/kevin-twardzik-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Twardzik, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-213 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Cortland-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a senior economics major heading towards graduation, and am pleased with the opportunities and experiences I\u2019ve had during my four years at SUNY Cortland. I\u2019ve made friends for the rest of my life. While I\u00a0have had this\u00a0positive experience, I also took on\u00a0on multiple student loans. My family felt the financial burden of increased tuition and related expenses as they put both my sister and myself through college.<\/p>\n<p>The value of a higher education is important to me and my family, so I resorted to a handful of student loans to cover a portion of my tuition and textbooks. Aside the student loan debt that I\u2019ve taken on, I also work part-time during the semesters to cover living expenses and the rest of my tuition. On top of working, I have a maxed-out course load, I participate in intramural sports, and have an internship on-campus. My schedule is busy, and worrying about how to afford the rising costs of SUNY Cortland\u2019s tuition and costs has no place in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior economics major heading towards graduation, and am pleased with the opportunities and experiences I\u2019ve had during my four years at SUNY Cortland. I\u2019ve made friends for the rest of my life. While I\u00a0have had this\u00a0positive experience, I also took on\u00a0on multiple student loans. My family felt the financial burden of increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[18,84,19],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suny-cortland","tag-job","tag-student-athlete","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}