{"id":37,"date":"2017-03-22T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:56:01","slug":"levi-castle-queens-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/levi-castle-queens-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi Castle, Queens College"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I come from a middle class background in a family of 9 so I never expected to get any financial assistance from my parents. I also never expected to receive financial aid from the government because of my father’s income. I knew college would mean debt and I\u2019ve accepted that. However, I don’t think it’s something that I should have had to accept or that future generations should accept. I work two part time jobs along with an 18-credit schedule and an internship. I am also a part of a resident planning committee for my dorms.<\/p>\n

I don’t regret all the hard work I do because I know it’s making me a better person every day.\u00a0 But, I do not like that on top of all that I do, I still have to worry about finding several thousands of dollars in order to continue making contributions to my college and the surrounding community. I have wanted to attend college since I was a little kid, in my mind it represented the first step towards achieving the American dream. However as time went on and I woke up to the reality of America’s true nature, I have come to terms with the fact that I\u2019m going to have to work as hard as I physically and mentally can just to achieve stability.\u00a0 My legislators owe it not only me but to the honor of their office to make sure the financial burden of college becomes a thing of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I come from a middle class background in a family of 9 so I never expected to get any financial assistance from my parents. I also never expected to receive financial aid from the government because of my father’s income. I knew college would mean debt and I\u2019ve accepted that. However, I don’t think it’s […]<\/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":[187,18],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-25","category-senate-district-16","category-queens-college","tag-credit-requirements","tag-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}