{"id":98,"date":"2017-03-23T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:10:15","slug":"mehnaz-sultana-suny-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/mehnaz-sultana-suny-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehnaz Sultana, Purchase College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mehnaz-Purch-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I do not have any student loans as of now but, it does seem like something I might need in the future.\u00a0 One reason I am actually in college I would say is because the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) exists and the support they provide.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m not taking any loans, but I am struggling. I am a commuter so I have to actually spend two-three hours sometimes commuting depending on when I miss a train or something.<\/p>\n<p>Either I spend more time, or I spend more money. \u00a0So, if you&#8217;re not in economic debt, then you are in mental debt.\u00a0\u00a0 I am totally, I don\u2019t function half of the time. I\u2019m so tired when I come to class, I\u2019m just trying to stay awake. If I didn\u2019t have to commute and if I could live on campus and get up and go to my classes it would be awesome. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure my grade would not suffer as much as they do right now. It\u2019s hard to balance that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily, I do not have any student loans as of now but, it does seem like something I might need in the future.\u00a0 One reason I am actually in college I would say is because the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) exists and the support they provide.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m not taking any loans, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[17,72,36],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purchase-college","tag-eop","tag-opportunity-program","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}