{"id":1463,"date":"2022-12-08T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:22:14","slug":"anthony-williams-hunter-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/anthony-williams-hunter-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Williams, Hunter College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-1024x1018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1464\" width=\"173\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-1024x1018.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-1536x1526.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-2048x2035.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1414-1568x1558.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am a graduate student at Hunter College majoring in Computer Science. During my undergraduate and masters, I received no assistance paying for tuition. This is extremely difficult when taking summer classes where 2 courses alone can cost up to $3000. I have not taken out any loans yet as I work and my parents pay out of pocket but I might have to for the remaining of my masters. Increased CUNY funding and more financial support for graduate students would help alleviate the financial burden I am facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a graduate student at Hunter College majoring in Computer Science. During my undergraduate and masters, I received no assistance paying for tuition. This is extremely difficult when taking summer classes where 2 courses alone can cost up to $3000. I have not taken out any loans yet as I work and my parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,146,9,54],"tags":[279,18,19,144,15],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-58","category-senate-district-20","category-school","category-hunter-college","tag-graduate-student","tag-job","tag-student-loans","tag-summer-tap","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","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=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}