{"id":861,"date":"2020-01-30T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=861"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:26:39","slug":"andi-bruce-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/andi-bruce-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Andi Bruce, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/andi-storybank-pic-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-863\" width=\"223\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/andi-storybank-pic-1.png 769w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/andi-storybank-pic-1-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a freshman at SUNY Cortland studying English\nand philosophy with minors in women, gender, and sexuality studies, and in\neconomics. At this point, I don\u2019t have a definite&nbsp;plan for after\ngraduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pay for school with scholarships, financial\naid, and loans. I receive TAP and the Pell Grant, and I also work through the\nwork-study program as a part of my financial aid. I use my aid to pay for some\nof my tuition and textbooks, and I have a meal plan. Like many other students,\nif I didn\u2019t receive financial aid I would not be able to attend college. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest challenge as a student has been thinking about the future. The Excelsior scholarship was not clear about how they deduct Pell and TAP grants, so my parents had to take out an extra loan right before the tuition bill was due so I could afford to go here. I&#8217;m going to have all this debt to pay off when I leave college, and that&#8217;s stressful to think about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need fully funded colleges because in this economy you can&#8217;t rise up without a college education, and preventing someone from receiving such an education is depriving them of equal opportunity and a chance at the life they want and deserve. I think college should be free for everyone, everywhere. Education should be a right, not a privilege.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a freshman at SUNY Cortland studying English and philosophy with minors in women, gender, and sexuality studies, and in economics. At this point, I don\u2019t have a definite&nbsp;plan for after graduation. I pay for school with scholarships, financial aid, and loans. I receive TAP and the Pell Grant, and I also work through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,197,50],"tags":[99,16,28,19,15,126,89],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-132","category-senate-district-58","category-suny-cortland","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-financial-aid","tag-pell-grant","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-tuition","tag-work-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}