{"id":356,"date":"2017-12-11T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=356"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:18:44","slug":"tyrell-lewis-bronx-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/tyrell-lewis-bronx-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrell Lewis, Bronx Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-409 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tyrell-BCC-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was a General Education major at Bronx Community College. I wasn\u2019t able to graduate and needed to get a full time job. I couldn\u2019t do both. I had participated in the workstudy program but I wasn\u2019t making enough. I had to pay rent, food, cable, and utilities. I was awarded a partial Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) award and the Pell Grant.<\/p>\n<p>I found out about ASAP too late, but if I had known about it, I would have applied to it for the tutoring to bring my grades up! I wanted it for the tutoring. Everyone should have ASAP. While I was at BCC I received SNAP assistance. The transition from high school to college was really horrible. Textbooks were the biggest cost. I couldn\u2019t keep up with my studies because I couldn\u2019t afford the materials, and this is when I was receiving TAP and Pell. Pell helped for some but I also had to pay for all of my living expenses it was way too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a General Education major at Bronx Community College. I wasn\u2019t able to graduate and needed to get a full time job. I couldn\u2019t do both. I had participated in the workstudy program but I wasn\u2019t making enough. I had to pay rent, food, cable, and utilities. I was awarded a partial Tuition Assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,98,79],"tags":[76,27,18,28,15,20],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-77","category-senate-district-32","category-bronx-community-college","tag-asap","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}