{"id":866,"date":"2020-02-04T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=866"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:04:51","slug":"wasan-bahr-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wasan-bahr-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasan Bahr, 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\/02\/Wasan-Bahr-SUNY-Cortland-storybank.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-867\" width=\"227\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Wasan-Bahr-SUNY-Cortland-storybank.png 453w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Wasan-Bahr-SUNY-Cortland-storybank-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland studying Teaching English as a\nSecond Language. After graduation, I plan on getting a teaching job and to\nbegin working towards paying off my extensive student debt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pay for school in a few ways. I take out student loans and work a few part-time jobs, such as driving for Uber, cleaning houses, and interpreting for various places in the Syracuse area. As for TAP, I\u2019m not eligible because I was working full-time, and I made too much money two years ago to qualify. I only receive about $200 from the Pell Grant, and I work as much as possible so that I am able to pay for college. As for textbooks, I use financial aid to pay for them. I don\u2019t receive SNAP, so my husband and I pay out of pocket for groceries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I didn\u2019t receive financial aid, I would not be able to go to\nschool because it is so expensive. I have had no choice but to take out student\nloans, so I\u2019m hoping to get a job after graduation that will help to pay off my\nstudent loans. I have no worries about graduating on time, but I am a\nnon-traditional student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUNY should be fully funded and affordable so that students have the ability to attend college and ultimately have more opportunities and a better quality of life where they\u2019re not forced to work low-paying jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland studying Teaching English as a Second Language. After graduation, I plan on getting a teaching job and to begin working towards paying off my extensive student debt. I pay for school in a few ways. I take out student loans and work a few part-time jobs, such as driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,198,50],"tags":[27,18,28,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-129","category-senate-district-50","category-suny-cortland","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}