{"id":875,"date":"2020-02-04T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=875"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:21:31","slug":"michaila-larsen-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/michaila-larsen-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaila Larsen, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am a senior at SUNY\nCortland studying Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. My plan after\ngraduation is to go into social work, and I\u2019m currently looking at a possible\njob in Maine that doesn\u2019t require a master\u2019s degree. I can\u2019t afford graduate\nschool, and my loans are already collecting interest so I have no option but to\nonly look at jobs that don\u2019t require another degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently pay for\nschool with subsidized and Stafford loans and a small amount of financial aid.\nI don\u2019t receive TAP, and I only receive a small amount of aid from the Pell\nGrant. In order to pay for school, I have to work. I work at the child care\ncenter at the YWCA before and after school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sometimes use the\nmoney I make from my job to pay for textbooks, and my parents help out when\nthey can, but oftentimes if I can\u2019t afford a textbook, I just don\u2019t get it. I\nhave had textbooks that cost more than $100, and I just can\u2019t afford that. I have\nno option except to not buy the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t have a meal\nplan, so I pay for groceries out of pocket, and sometimes my parents help pay\nfor food. If I didn\u2019t receive financial aid, going to school wouldn\u2019t be an\noption for me, or I would have no choice but to co-sign another loan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fully funded SUNY\nsystem would allow those students who can\u2019t afford school to have the ability\nto attend, and it would help current students stay in school without fear of\npaying loans back. Some students have no choice but to leave college because,\nfinancially, they just can\u2019t do it. How can anyone start a life after graduating\nwhen they\u2019re so deep in debt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only is paying for school a challenge I face, but paying for parking is another financial obligation that I have. I would say that I have paid close to $300 in parking tickets since I have been here, and the cost of a parking pass is huge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest challenge that I\u2019ve faced as a SUNY student is having my classes blocked when I can\u2019t pay my bill. I wasn\u2019t able to register for classes that I needed because I couldn\u2019t make my payment. This could prevent students from graduating on time because certain classes are only offered at specific times, and if students can\u2019t make their payments then they won\u2019t be able to register when the class is offered. This forces students to pay more and stay for another semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am a senior at SUNY Cortland studying Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. My plan after graduation is to go into social work, and I\u2019m currently looking at a possible job in Maine that doesn\u2019t require a master\u2019s degree. I can\u2019t afford graduate school, and my loans are already collecting interest so I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,202,50],"tags":[16,18,28,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-130","category-senate-district-54","category-suny-cortland","tag-financial-aid","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\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}