{"id":630,"date":"2019-05-09T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=630"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:33:38","slug":"andreina-martinez-city-college-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/andreina-martinez-city-college-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreina Martinez, City College of NY"},"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\/Andreina-Martinez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-758\" width=\"327\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a senior majoring in Physiology and minoring in Latin Studies. I&#8217;m graduating in May. I plan on getting a job in politics after college so I have a couple of internships with legislators in my community. I am a SEEK student so I get some help from financial aid. I receive the Pell Grant and work here at school as a tutor. I pay for textbooks and food with that money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without financial aid I would not be in school. Last year I was concerned with tuition being raised that I would have to take out a loan but I managed my classes so that my financial aid didn&#8217;t run out.\u00a0 A lot of things in high school I took for granted. Like for instance, in high school, you get a metro card provided and don&#8217;t have to pay $130 every month. Textbooks are very expensive in college and even if you rent them they cost a lot of money. It&#8217;s hard trying to maintain a decent lifestyle like trying to eat healthy and those things while being in school full time or part time. I often still do not have enough money to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fully funded CUNY would give a lot of opportunity to people who can&#8217;t afford it who maybe didn&#8217;t have any kind of financial aid programs. Without financial aid a lot of us wouldn&#8217;t even be here today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior majoring in Physiology and minoring in Latin Studies. I&#8217;m graduating in May. I plan on getting a job in politics after college so I have a couple of internships with legislators in my community. I am a SEEK student so I get some help from financial aid. I receive the Pell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,9,106],"tags":[27,18,28,71,20,36],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate-district-32","category-school","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-seek","tag-textbooks","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}