{"id":671,"date":"2019-05-09T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=671"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:07:24","slug":"emily-lotiempo-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/emily-lotiempo-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily LoTiempo, 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\/SergiF-QwV4Iocj8tMvaECbxyZLsaf13ejJZrBM1OMjOHBAtDaHL5sKBAfT86fJaEnNN61M8MJ21_Iw1p2GRZdIBtu1A5Aiik00ogE7I9O8JM-D4fdWR9DKVFB0_MkQHKLkhqYb5s58tjHcbEw\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"262\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m finishing up my last year at Cortland in Professional Writing and English, and I\u2019m getting ready to apply to Emerson to get a Master\u2019s in Publishing in Boston. I\u2019ve been so lucky. My grandfather died a few years ago and left his grandchildren a good sum of money for our education. I still have two jobs so that I can pay for food and books and stuff. My mother doesn\u2019t help me with school at all. But I\u2019m still lucky that I don\u2019t have to worry about loans for tuition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see all my friends around me not as well off as I am. I\u2019ve been blessed. I see people with 80 thousand dollars in debt. Even the new Excelsior Scholarship doesn\u2019t cover everyone. I know a lot of people in debt that just don\u2019t qualify. Although I\u2019m not worried about money, I am worried about my career path after school. My major doesn\u2019t have a set path, like some others do. Entry-level positions aren\u2019t actually entry-level. I have to mold everything I\u2019ve done in college as experience even though it isn\u2019t technically professional, which is what jobs are looking for. The cycle of no experience leads employers having to take a chance on students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More internships on campus would really help people like me. Remote internships just aren\u2019t the same. We need more on-site internships, and we really need to encourage more professors to take on research assistants and interns. Without that experience we can\u2019t get jobs. Without jobs, we\u2019ll never be able to begin paying off all this student debt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m finishing up my last year at Cortland in Professional Writing and English, and I\u2019m getting ready to apply to Emerson to get a Master\u2019s in Publishing in Boston. I\u2019ve been so lucky. My grandfather died a few years ago and left his grandchildren a good sum of money for our education. I still have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,82,50],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-125","category-senate-district-51","category-suny-cortland","tag-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}