{"id":254,"date":"2017-05-09T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=254"},"modified":"2017-05-09T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:55:23","slug":"lina-pignato-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/lina-pignato-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Pignato, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lina-cortland-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After losing\u00a0my father in high school,\u00a0I didn&#8217;t realize\u00a0I\u2019d have to lean so heavily on my\u00a0mother for assistance. \u00a0No one in my\u00a0family has been able to achieve a four-year degree yet. That has been my motivation to work hard to make them proud. My\u00a0mother wisely invested in a savings account for my\u00a0education, unfortunately the funds only partially cover the costs for the first two years of SUNY Cortland and the costs only seem to be going up.<\/p>\n<p>I work full-time over the summers at an assisted living center and was fortunate enough to secure one of the limited spots in the Work Study Program to put towards the\u00a0costs of living at Cortland. While it is difficult to keep up with the expense of food, transportation and other unavoidable essentials, I am thankful to have been accepted into work-study because it helps reduce my tuition costs and enables me to have some extra cash during the semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing\u00a0my father in high school,\u00a0I didn&#8217;t realize\u00a0I\u2019d have to lean so heavily on my\u00a0mother for assistance. \u00a0No one in my\u00a0family has been able to achieve a four-year degree yet. That has been my motivation to work hard to make them proud. My\u00a0mother wisely invested in a savings account for my\u00a0education, unfortunately the funds only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,82,50],"tags":[62,18],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-125","category-senate-district-51","category-suny-cortland","tag-first-generation-student","tag-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}