{"id":653,"date":"2019-05-09T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=653"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:55:17","slug":"kim-wylie-queens-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/kim-wylie-queens-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Wylie, Queens College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/PTLMt0U8-tNYb1W7kTMN2n5Ojib5asuOY34FFkpaeO7-4cadENDXAhpZuh3LmXQNDCskOfoU-luKMyl0sYG4xnpYKzU1Q0zY32XWKGu0RsjFAkhM_NTL3l3Lf_m-kmqlSaBfOZ2d\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"204\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently part of the Macaulay Honors Program where I am a sophomore double majoring in Psychology and Political Science. In the future I plan on pursuing my master\u2019s degree in criminal psychology.  I also receive full TAP and Pell grants which pay for my college career.  If it would not be for these grants, I would have to take out various student loans to be able to afford college.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest challenge as a CUNY student receiving TAP and Pell is taking fifteen credits a semester to graduate on time without these grants running out. \u00a0As far as my other expenses go such as food, textbooks, and transportation my parents help me out.  There needs to be a fully funded CUNY.  In today\u2019s economy one can not get a decent paying job without a diploma, therefore making it a necessity and not a commodity. Also, at the most basic level education should be accessible to all. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently part of the Macaulay Honors Program where I am a sophomore double majoring in Psychology and Political Science. In the future I plan on pursuing my master\u2019s degree in criminal psychology. I also receive full TAP and Pell grants which pay for my college career. If it would not be for these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[187,28,15],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-queens-college","tag-credit-requirements","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}