{"id":1511,"date":"2022-12-12T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:47:44","slug":"donald-glivens-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/donald-glivens-borough-of-manhattan-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glivens, Borough of Manhattan Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1512\" width=\"316\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am a senior at BMCC and I am majoring in Business Management. I am planning on continuing my education at a four year college to get my bachelor\u2019s degree. I live with my parents, but they can\u2019t afford to pay for my college expenses. So I have to take out loans in order to pay for my education. I take out subsidized loans through FASFA. It covers all of my school expenses but it doesn\u2019t cover my textbooks, transportation, or food. Also, I have to help support my family, so I have to work two jobs to afford other expenses. This makes it difficult for me to concentrate on my education. In order to graduate I needed to take a certain class that wasn\u2019t offered my last semester. This forced me to take out more loans because I had to go to school for an extra semester. I am really worried about paying these loans back in the future. I wish they would make college free for everyone, so I wouldn&#8217;t have to be so overwhelmed about paying for my education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior at BMCC and I am majoring in Business Management. I am planning on continuing my education at a four year college to get my bachelor\u2019s degree. I live with my parents, but they can\u2019t afford to pay for my college expenses. So I have to take out loans in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,181,13],"tags":[285,18,19,36,284],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-77","category-senate-district-29","category-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","tag-food","tag-job","tag-student-loans","tag-transit","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","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=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}