{"id":310,"date":"2017-11-02T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:49:28","slug":"stephanie-almodova-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/stephanie-almodova-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Almodovar, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-353 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Stephanie-CCNY-Storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My name is Stephanie Almodovar and I am a freshman at CUNY City College. I am currently looking to go into Civil Engineering. Right now, I work as a group leader at a local YMCA and this job allows me to save a little for school. Unfortunately, I do not receive Pell Grants and I do not qualify for the Excelsior Scholarship because my mother\u2019s income is just above the cut off level. Often times I struggle with paying tuition and buying the necessary textbooks for school.<\/p>\n<p>I do not qualify for work-study so most weeks I have to choose between saving money towards school or buying lunch. I usually only eat lunch 2-3 times a week but sometimes that&#8217;s too much because buying snacks will deplete my savings and I would not be able to eat for the rest of that week. Thankfully, with the help of outside scholarships, I am now able to pay tuition without worry. However, at any time, that could change. I try my hardest to not let these troubles overcome my college experience but sometimes it all becomes too much. In all honesty, I dream of tuition-free CUNY so that one day I will no longer have to worry about paying for school and just enjoy learning.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_7034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Stephanie Almodovar and I am a freshman at CUNY City College. I am currently looking to go into Civil Engineering. Right now, I work as a group leader at a local YMCA and this job allows me to save a little for school. Unfortunately, I do not receive Pell Grants and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,98,106],"tags":[99,27,18,20],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-79","category-senate-district-32","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}