{"id":30,"date":"2017-03-21T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=30"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:53:44","slug":"dwayne-johnson-queens-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/dwayne-johnson-queens-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Jolly, Queens College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dwayne-QC-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>College is costly to me. I pay through loans and out of my pocket.\u00a0 The cost makes it definitely hard to enjoy college since I need the help of loans to pay for it. I work about 15 hours a week throughout the school year in an attempt to lower the cost of college.\u00a0 I&#8217;m the first from my family to get a degree. I am from a Caribbean island, and there, it\u2019s a big deal to get a degree.\u00a0 I&#8217;m studying nutrition and exercise sciences at the moment but not sure what&#8217;s in store after college.\u00a0 I try not to think about the stress that paying for college and maintaining my grades puts on me. If I do, it makes me very sad and even frustrated with the way the system works here in America.\u00a0 Financial aid has been a huge help, even though it never covers everything (academic, housing, books, meals).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College is costly to me. I pay through loans and out of my pocket.\u00a0 The cost makes it definitely hard to enjoy college since I need the help of loans to pay for it. I work about 15 hours a week throughout the school year in an attempt to lower the cost of college.\u00a0 I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,21],"tags":[62,18,19],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-25","category-senate-district-16","category-queens-college","tag-first-generation-student","tag-job","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}