{"id":929,"date":"2020-04-13T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=929"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:34:00","slug":"seth-herendeen-buffalo-state-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/seth-herendeen-buffalo-state-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Herendeen, Buffalo State College"},"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\/04\/seth-buffalo-storybank-1024x1003.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-930\" width=\"274\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seth-buffalo-storybank-1024x1003.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seth-buffalo-storybank-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seth-buffalo-storybank-768x752.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seth-buffalo-storybank.png 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up mostly in upstate New York. I went to Lyons High School in Lyons, NY, which is a really small school; my graduating class was about 60 people. My career goal is to become a software developer or programmer\u2014something along those lines\u2014and I am taking computer science classes here at Buffalo State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I transferred to Buffalo State from Finger Lakes Community College, which was a two-year school, and Buffalo State was one of the less expensive options for four-year colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last semester was my first semester here in Buffalo. Because my family is recognized as being in need, I get financial aid of like all stripes. I get Pell Grants and would have gotten Perkins if they hadn\u2019t done away with that. I get TAP and Excelsior. Despite all of that\u2014which sounds like a lot, but it\u2019s not\u2014there\u2019s still money that I have to pay out-of-pocket even though my family really can\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Finger Lakes there were three professors that got together and wrote their own book, and that helped with textbook costs there. This semester, most of my textbooks, like three of them were under $20, but one of them was $150. It was one for my information systems class, and there was another I had that was like $90, and it was just to access an online version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I could just focus full-time on schoolwork I would do that, but I need money to pay for textbooks and living expenses beyond what\u2019s covered by financial aid, so I am looking for a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up mostly in upstate New York. I went to Lyons High School in Lyons, NY, which is a really small school; my graduating class was about 60 people. My career goal is to become a software developer or programmer\u2014something along those lines\u2014and I am taking computer science classes here at Buffalo State. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[99,18,28,15,20],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buffalo-state-college","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}