{"id":1125,"date":"2020-05-15T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2020-05-15T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:08:08","slug":"ankush-gaba-queensborough-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/ankush-gaba-queensborough-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankush Gaba, Queensborough Community 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\/05\/Ankush.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1126\" width=\"316\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ankush.png 698w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ankush-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am studying Business Administration at Queensborough Community College, and I want to pursue accounting in the future. This is my second year, and I am graduating in Fall 2020. I\u2019m currently in ASAP and they help cover some expenses and books, but I don\u2019t receive any financial aid and pay out of pocket for tuition during the summer or winter sessions. Because of COVID-19 I haven\u2019t been able to work for a month, but I still have to pay off my bills and help support my family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an immigrant. The only way I can pay for this college is by working and working too much. I have to deal with my travel expenses, meals, and then my tuition or textbook expenses. I work three jobs to get myself going and also help my family financially too as we are here to make our future. A fully funded CUNY would take a big load of stress off of me and my family, and would especially help immigrant families who are trying to save as much as they can to have a secure and better future.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being QCC\u2019s Student Government President I think if people didn&#8217;t have to worry about paying for college, they could have more time to study or get involved with campus life and opportunities, rather than running to work right after class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am studying Business Administration at Queensborough Community College, and I want to pursue accounting in the future. This is my second year, and I am graduating in Fall 2020. I\u2019m currently in ASAP and they help cover some expenses and books, but I don\u2019t receive any financial aid and pay out of pocket for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,108,53],"tags":[76,16,27,237,18,72,238,20,36,126,239],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate-district-11","category-assembly-district-33","category-queensborough-community-college","tag-asap","tag-financial-aid","tag-food-costs","tag-immigrant","tag-job","tag-opportunity-program","tag-summer-sessions","tag-textbooks","tag-transit","tag-tuition","tag-winter-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}