{"id":586,"date":"2019-04-09T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=586"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:02:55","slug":"ariyah-adams-suny-new-paltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/ariyah-adams-suny-new-paltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariyah Adams, SUNY New Paltz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/6ZCY11ejEHpyTuVQrGMEakQvTFTEO_7u2HYUHL62PGyvypS1nREGcmgMMM2ipusplczltXYDI8FCQCp3zUVvUcXWAFKlVgy35UqsKkVNs03PX0t6d2a4DwU1vrjmA0oRHL5UsdLg2lar2Rpejw\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"262\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently a junior majoring \u00a0in communications with a concentration in public relations and double minoring in theater and business. I pay for tuition through TAP and Pell Grants, as well as take out loans to cover the the rest of my bill. After I graduate I plan on attending graduate school at either SUNY New \u00a0Paltz or a different SUNY. I am still undecided about that. I plan on paying for graduate school through applying for grants and scholarships.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now I am working two jobs, I work at the dining hall on campus and I have a work study job. I don\u2019t depend on money from my parents so usually I pay for my textbooks\u00a0and food on my own or a split the cost of the textbook with a friend or classmate in the same class as me.  I am also a student at the Educational Opportunity Program\u00a0at my school which has helped me a lot, getting through navigating financial aid. If this program didn\u2019t exist I\u2019m not sure if I would be in college. The EOP program has helped me grow into a strong individual and has offered me tutoring, mentors and advisors that always have my back. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently a junior majoring \u00a0in communications with a concentration in public relations and double minoring in theater and business. I pay for tuition through TAP and Pell Grants, as well as take out loans to cover the the rest of my bill. After I graduate I plan on attending graduate school at either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[17,18,72,19,138,20,126,89],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-suny-new-paltz","tag-eop","tag-job","tag-opportunity-program","tag-student-loans","tag-support-services","tag-textbooks","tag-tuition","tag-work-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}