{"id":869,"date":"2020-02-04T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=869"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:24:53","slug":"hannah-falk-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/hannah-falk-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Falk, 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\/Hannah-Falk-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-870\" width=\"277\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Hannah-Falk-storybank.jpg 837w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Hannah-Falk-storybank-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Hannah-Falk-storybank-768x787.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m currently a senior studying international studies and\npolitical science at SUNY Cortland. After graduation, I plan to work abroad,\nspecifically in the Australian government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to pay for school, I use financial aid as well as out of\npocket payments. I receive both TAP and the Pell Grant to help cover the costs\nof school, but I also work part-time on campus for 20 hours a week on top of\ntaking 19 credits. I use the money I make working to help pay for groceries,\nbut I also use the student food cupboard on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pay for textbooks out of pocket with money from working. They\u2019re\nexpensive every semester, and I\u2019m concerned that I won\u2019t graduate on time and\nwill have to pay for even more books all over again. There are classes that I\u2019m\nrequired to take that are only offered at specific times, and I still haven\u2019t\nbeen able to take them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>College should be accessible to everyone, and by making SUNY fully\nfunded, it will be. Not everyone has the opportunity to attend college and\nfinancial aid doesn\u2019t always cover everything, so students are left responsible\nto pay for the remaining costs. As students, our concern shouldn\u2019t be having\nenough to eat. We should be focused on our education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest challenge that I\u2019ve faced as a&nbsp;SUNY student is\ntrying to afford both housing and food. My financial aid doesn\u2019t cover housing\nbecause it is all spent on paying for my tuition, so I have to find ways to pay\nfor it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently a senior studying international studies and political science at SUNY Cortland. After graduation, I plan to work abroad, specifically in the Australian government. In order to pay for school, I use financial aid as well as out of pocket payments. I receive both TAP and the Pell Grant to help cover the costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,87,50],"tags":[188,105,16,27,18,28,49,15,20,126],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-114","category-senate-district-45","category-suny-cortland","tag-campus-food-pantry","tag-course-offerings","tag-financial-aid","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-rent","tag-tap","tag-textbooks","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}