{"id":872,"date":"2020-02-04T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=872"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:50:54","slug":"courtney-hines-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/courtney-hines-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Hines, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland majoring in philosophy. After I\ngraduate, I plan on working for a nonprofit organization. I pay for school with\nboth financial aid and loans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I receive TAP and\nthe Pell Grant, and I also have a part-time job during the semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to textbooks, I usually don\u2019t buy them because I\ncan\u2019t afford them. I try to find an online PDF version of the textbook, but if\nI can\u2019t find that, then I have no option but to not have the book for class.\nFor food, my financial aid covers the cost. I use it to buy groceries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I depend on my financial aid, and this year I didn\u2019t receive as much as previous semesters. My financial aid went from $4,000 to $400 because my sister moved out so my parents were expected to have that extra money to pay for my tuition. My mom had no choice but to take out a loan to help cover the costs of school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need a fully funded SUNY system so that all students have the\nopportunity to attend college, and they won\u2019t be worried about paying for it.\nMy biggest challenge as a SUNY student has been paying for school and worrying\nabout how my parents are going to help me pay for it. A student\u2019s main focus should\nnot be paying for school; they should be focused on pursuing their education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland majoring in philosophy. After I graduate, I plan on working for a nonprofit organization. I pay for school with both financial aid and loans. I receive TAP and the Pell Grant, and I also have a part-time job during the semester. When it comes to textbooks, I usually don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,198,50],"tags":[16,27,18,28,19,15,20,126],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-127","category-senate-district-50","category-suny-cortland","tag-financial-aid","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-textbooks","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}