{"id":667,"date":"2019-05-09T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=667"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:06:51","slug":"kristen-muller-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/kristen-muller-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Muller, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/e9gnDpDOZpEcOas6QAr_v46eOyLjqteTAn8HSYjhG-Oc6ZE2gqcsqkJsASLaZ7HxiMq_FwfCeS62cCeB7BgfaZJXpKDBM874-_Kp_vhJ92RX5bdYE1jBvGgysUK6P7BFe2HMTii61OpcjjyRSw\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"393\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently in my final year at SUNY Cortland as a Spanish and Teaching English as a Second Language double major. The only financial aid I qualify for is like $50 from TAP, which really doesn\u2019t cover anything. In the summer, I work full-time as a secretary to help cover my college expenses, like room and board and tuition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t have time during the school year to work because of how demanding my majors are. Also, I have to drive myself to and from my observation hours. That can get really expensive, but I still have to pay for that out of pocket on top of everything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a meal plan but the food and the hours for dining halls are so ridiculous that I normally eat off campus, not to mention the food on campus is more expensive than off-campus food! I think we need to have fully funded SUNY so we don\u2019t have debt until we die and won\u2019t affect our credit scores for the future when we really need them. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently in my final year at SUNY Cortland as a Spanish and Teaching English as a Second Language double major. The only financial aid I qualify for is like $50 from TAP, which really doesn\u2019t cover anything. In the summer, I work full-time as a secretary to help cover my college expenses, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,176,50],"tags":[27,18,15],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-12","category-senate-district-2","category-suny-cortland","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}