{"id":1264,"date":"2021-05-12T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:10:47","slug":"shajane-butcher-borough-of-manhattan-community-college-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/shajane-butcher-borough-of-manhattan-community-college-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shajane Butcher, Borough of Manhattan Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I currently attend The Borough of Manhattan Community College and I\u2019m a Science major. I got in on an excelsior scholarship and with limited financial aid. So, I had transferred to BMCC in my freshman year in the Spring semester and was put into a remedial math course after I had taken it at my other school before BMCC and I passed it as well. It took me some time to get it dealt with but I was able to speak to a deputy teacher in the department who said that she\u2019d try me out of it but that it was past the deadline to drop classes, but I managed through that pitfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, the only thing that\u2019s really holding me back is the pandemic. I have also been battling some health issues, nothing connected to Covid-19, but still enough to keep me out of class for a while. I would love to be given a break by the school board because some classes have gotten more difficult due to the professor being hard to work with and the pandemic throwing everything off. I had no loans and when I had a job I was working roughly 20 plus hours a week, since I worked when I had a day off of school or had a class finish early. I normally worked on night shifts, I was also a full time student during this time.
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For some reason financial aid only paid for half of my tuition, I had no idea why, but the pandemic kinda saved me because financial aid was not paying everything. I did have to pay for what they didn\u2019t cover, I paid out of pocket when I had a job but this semester it\u2019s lower since I\u2019m at home. I currently live with my parents and they predominantly pay the bills, but I do pay the gas and light bills, and sometimes other bills. I thankfully paid the max on our gas and it saved us during the pandemic.
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Personally, any degree in this day and age is for me, an opportunity to not be held back by society. It\u2019s the place that I got the most opportunity, with great teachers who have seen so much in me, since in high school and in junior high I had to compete so hard against others. So, getting this degree is a really important opportunity. I hope that I\u2019ll be able to graduate on time because of this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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