{"id":35,"date":"2017-03-22T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:40:56","slug":"leanne-aenlle-queens-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/leanne-aenlle-queens-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Leanne Aenlle, Queens College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Leanne-2-QC-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this year, my family and I paid about $1,684 out of pocket and the rest was covered by loans which are about $20,000-$21,000 for the 2016-2017 school year.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t gotten much financial aid so I\u2019ve had to take out private loans to cover the rest.\u00a0 My parents cover the cost of textbooks and my grandpa sends me $100 each month to help with transit and food.\u00a0 After I graduate I&#8217;ll probably be in debt for many years, sadly.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a job because I wanted to adjust to college for my freshman year.\u00a0 But some people have to balance a job and classes. I feel sorry for their mental health because they seem to struggle at times.\u00a0 Getting a college degree, to me, is such a huge accomplishment. I think it&#8217;s important to be able to further your education beyond high school.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently undecided, but I&#8217;m looking forward to finding a major that fits me perfectly and having a career that I&#8217;ll enjoy.\u00a0 The financial burden of college is constantly on my mind. It&#8217;s going to be a huge financial burden for me for years and years, and with an uncertain job market in the future, who knows what will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year, my family and I paid about $1,684 out of pocket and the rest was covered by loans which are about $20,000-$21,000 for the 2016-2017 school year.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t gotten much financial aid so I\u2019ve had to take out private loans to cover the rest.\u00a0 My parents cover the cost of textbooks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,21],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-25","category-senate-district-16","category-queens-college","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}