{"id":152,"date":"2017-03-28T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=152"},"modified":"2017-03-28T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:57:50","slug":"raylin-leroux-brooklyn-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/raylin-leroux-brooklyn-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Raylin Leroux, Brooklyn College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-157 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Raylin-BC-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recent divestment in CUNY and SUNY funding has affected me in many different ways. \u00a0I\u00a0work in order to pay for the entire tuition out of my own pocket. \u00a0The job I work provides me with just enough to pay my tuition fees while leaving me with less to save for the future. I sometimes completely opt out of buying the textbook of a class in order to save the hundreds of dollars they can cost. \u00a0I instead have to spend time in the library waiting for the textbook to be available and then rent it out to do my studying and homework. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, along with working the same days I have class, is very exhausting and negatively affects my state of mind and how much I get out of my classes. \u00a0The job I have\u00a0has nothing to do with what I want my future career to be. \u00a0I would love to be in a position where I can become an intern and gain valuable work experience in the field of my major. I hope that one day everyone can have the ability to become an intern in a field of their choosing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent divestment in CUNY and SUNY funding has affected me in many different ways. \u00a0I\u00a0work in order to pay for the entire tuition out of my own pocket. \u00a0The job I work provides me with just enough to pay my tuition fees while leaving me with less to save for the future. I sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,67,63],"tags":[18,20],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-34","category-senate-district-13","category-brooklyn-college","tag-job","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}