{"id":576,"date":"2019-04-09T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=576"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:44:30","slug":"lashanna-chance-queensborough-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/lashanna-chance-queensborough-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Lashanna Chance, Queensborough Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lashanna-chance.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778\" width=\"250\" height=\"349\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been at Queensborough for two years studying\u00a0music production. I am very invested in my classes but also produce and write my own music and poetry. I want people to see that I am a student, not a disability and actually working toward my goal of one day owning a record label. I am lucky to have great support at home and at QCC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do receive financial aid and I make sure I utilize every resource on campus. My advisers for VAPA (Visual and Preforming Arts) academy know me very well and help me to register for classes. I go to tutoring every day for statistics and writing. Everyone on campus knows me because I bother everyone. That is the only way to get help sometimes.\u00a0My greatest issue here is getting around comfortably. I don&#8217;t even go to the student union where the NYPIRG office is because it is actually dangerous for me to wheel myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, full funding for CUNY would mean open sourced or cheaper textbooks. Most of my books I can just get in the library, but it isn&#8217;t easy for me to get to the library, find a book and study with it for two hours. It is always too crowded and isn&#8217;t worth my time, so I just order my books.\u00a0Also, accessibility could be way better. Most doors are not automatic. The double doors close on me. I&#8217;m pretty strong, but yesterday I was struggling to get through a door for 5 minutes! When elevators are broken, that is the worst. I have to leave for my class at least 45 minutes early from anywhere on campus just to make sure I get there on time. An unexpected broken elevator can be a big problem.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been at Queensborough for two years studying\u00a0music production. I am very invested in my classes but also produce and write my own music and poetry. I want people to see that I am a student, not a disability and actually working toward my goal of one day owning a record label. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53],"tags":[16,184,138,20],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-queensborough-community-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-infrastructure","tag-support-services","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}