{"id":376,"date":"2017-12-12T15:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=376"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:09:51","slug":"keith-thiyagarajah-new-york-city-college-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/keith-thiyagarajah-new-york-city-college-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Thiyagarajah, New York City College of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-445 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keith-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am a Sophomore studying Computer Engineering.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am a part of\u00a0 the ASAP program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I work at a restaurant 30 hours a week.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I get an $875 voucher for textbooks and materials for school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some semesters I max out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My job pays for food.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s hard to balance work and school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I sleep 2-3 hours.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>ASAP gives me priority registration, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;m able to work 30 hours\/week.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I can plan my class schedule around work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">College should be free and available for everyone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A lot of people want to go to college, but they can&#8217;t because they have to work to support their family and kids!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My biggest challenge is sleep and transportation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There&#8217;s no parking near my school and the F train is always having problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Sophomore studying Computer Engineering.\u00a0 I am a part of\u00a0 the ASAP program.\u00a0 I work at a restaurant 30 hours a week.\u00a0 I get an $875 voucher for textbooks and materials for school.\u00a0 Some semesters I max out.\u00a0 My job pays for food.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to balance work and school.\u00a0 I sleep 2-3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,67,122],"tags":[76,18,36],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-34","category-senate-district-13","category-nyc-college-of-technology","tag-asap","tag-job","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}