{"id":1380,"date":"2022-03-21T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:55:49","slug":"iftakar-bakhsh-borough-manhattan-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/iftakar-bakhsh-borough-manhattan-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Iftakar Bakhsh, Borough Manhattan Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/iftakar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/iftakar.png 384w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/iftakar-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Iftakar Bakhsh. I am majoring in Business Management. I am planning to go to a four-year college to achieve my Bachelor&#8217;s degree. I live with my parents, so they pay for my college expenses. I used to get financial aid but now I don\u2019t get full cover for tuition and other expenses like textbooks, transportation, food and shelter due to my parents\u2019 income. My parents pay out of their pocket which is hard for them because they have a hard time to have enough money. So, they sometimes have to borrow from our family members and pay them back later which puts my parents in debt. Both of my parents have to work in order to pay for my tuition, other college expenses, rent, and food.\u00a0 I wish that they can make colleges free for everyone. This can help my parents, so they don\u2019t feel stressed about paying for my college expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Iftakar Bakhsh. I am majoring in Business Management. I am planning to go to a four-year college to achieve my Bachelor&#8217;s degree. I live with my parents, so they pay for my college expenses. I used to get financial aid but now I don\u2019t get full cover for tuition and other expenses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,98,13],"tags":[16,19,36,126],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-85","category-senate-district-32","category-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-student-loans","tag-transit","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","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=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}