{"id":91,"date":"2017-03-23T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=91"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:31:15","slug":"sammi-suny-new-paltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/sammi-suny-new-paltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammi, SUNY New Paltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-92 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sammi-New-Paltz-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My dad takes care of the FAFSA for financial aid. He takes out the Parent-Plus Loan, as well. So, it\u2019s all just basically financial aid and loans.\u00a0 My dad lost his job when I was in high school and he was still paying off my older sister\u2019s undergrad. And I have a twin, so they\u2019re paying college tuition for three people at this point.<\/p>\n<p>When he lost his job, it (the expenses) fell onto my mom. It was hard to figure out where I wanted to go because I couldn\u2019t afford to go to a private school. Now my dad\u2019s a real estate agent and my mom still has her job. If it wasn\u2019t for loans, I wouldn\u2019t be able to go to college. My car was bought with a loan, too. My car was paid for through a loan that my mom is still working off. My car was $20,000 and I was wondering, \u201cMom, why did you let me buy this?\u201d But, she\u2019s already paid off half of it. I love my mom, she works so hard. I pay for my own gas and I have a job. My rent and bills are paid through the loans because you can put off-campus housing on it. I can\u2019t afford luxury items, though. Like, I need a new laptop, but I can\u2019t buy one. I\u2019ve had to be smart and budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad takes care of the FAFSA for financial aid. He takes out the Parent-Plus Loan, as well. So, it\u2019s all just basically financial aid and loans.\u00a0 My dad lost his job when I was in high school and he was still paying off my older sister\u2019s undergrad. And I have a twin, so they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[16,18,19],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suny-new-paltz","tag-financial-aid","tag-job","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}