{"id":523,"date":"2018-06-01T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=523"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:53:19","slug":"monique-ritchie-queensborough-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/monique-ritchie-queensborough-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Monique Ritchie, Queensborough Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-526  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monique-Ritchie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/>South African leader Nelson Mandela once said, \u201cEducation is the most powerful weapon in which you can use to change the world.\u201d Since I started my education at Queensborough Community College in fall 2016, I\u2019ve realized my growth and the importance of having a college degree. In the future, I would like to become an attorney, to advocate justice for those less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I\u2019m enrolled in the ASAP program and I am a TAP and Pell recipient. I could not imagine coming to school without financial aid and opportunity programs that help support and pay for my schooling. Without these I would probably be more focused on working long hours to pay off tuition, than on classes and experiences that would be beneficial to my career later on. I want tuition hikes to be ended and higher education in New York to be fully funded so everyone will have the chance to get a fair education and further themselves like I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African leader Nelson Mandela once said, \u201cEducation is the most powerful weapon in which you can use to change the world.\u201d Since I started my education at Queensborough Community College in fall 2016, I\u2019ve realized my growth and the importance of having a college degree. In the future, I would like to become an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,9,53],"tags":[76,72,28,15,126],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-29","category-senate-district-14","category-school","category-queensborough-community-college","tag-asap","tag-opportunity-program","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}