{"id":880,"date":"2020-02-04T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=880"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:27:55","slug":"mary-faduski-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/mary-faduski-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Faduski, 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\/Mary-Faduski-SUNY-Cortland-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-881\" width=\"289\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mary-Faduski-SUNY-Cortland-storybank.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mary-Faduski-SUNY-Cortland-storybank-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland majoring in Sociology with a minor\nin Anthropology. Once I graduate, I plan on getting a job working at a\nchildren\u2019s home in case management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pay for school with private loans. Because my parents don\u2019t\nqualify, I don\u2019t receive TAP or the Pell Grant. I have no option but to take\nout loans. I have to work back home and on the weekends when I\u2019m at school to\nhelp pay for college and other expenses that I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to textbooks, my parents help pay for them, but I\npay out of pocket for groceries because I don\u2019t have a meal plan. I decided to\ntake out another loan so that I could afford a meal plan, but that hasn\u2019t gone\nthrough yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since my dad makes too much, I don\u2019t qualify for financial aid,\nbut my parents still can\u2019t afford to send me to school so my only option was to\ntake out multiple loans and have my dad co-sign them. My parents have already\nput my two siblings through school, and we all have had to take out loans\nbecause it\u2019s just not possible for my parents to pay for us all to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest concern is that when I leave school I won\u2019t get a job that will allow me to pay off my loans, which I have to start making payments on six months after graduating.  If SUNY was fully funded, I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about paying all these loans back, and it would also open doors for those who can\u2019t afford to attend school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a senior at SUNY Cortland majoring in Sociology with a minor in Anthropology. Once I graduate, I plan on getting a job working at a children\u2019s home in case management. I pay for school with private loans. Because my parents don\u2019t qualify, I don\u2019t receive TAP or the Pell Grant. I have no option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,204,50],"tags":[16,27,18,28,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-117","category-senate-district-47","category-suny-cortland","tag-financial-aid","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\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}