{"id":809,"date":"2019-06-12T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=809"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:32:55","slug":"latsha-lee-bronx-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/latsha-lee-bronx-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Latsha Lee, Bronx 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\/Tasha-Lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-810\" width=\"277\" height=\"270\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a psychology major and part of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)&#8211; it is critical for me to be able to attend BCC. Before I enrolled in ASAP, I worked full-time and was a full-time student as well. It was difficult to manage everything: I am a mom \u2013 I have two young boys (5 and 6), working full-time, plus taking 5 classes, helping out with the rest of my family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m loving the free MetroCard. Last semester, I actually lost my card and they weren\u2019t able to replace it. ASAP told me there wasn\u2019t enough funding to replace lost cards! I don\u2019t make use of the campus child care center. Back when child care was a bigger issue for me, I didn\u2019t pursue my education. If I had known about it, I would have enrolled at BCC much earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do have a fear of not graduating on time. If I lose my financial aid, or I\u2019m no longer able to be enrolled in ASAP for whatever reason, I won\u2019t be able to afford to continue. But ultimately, I want to go to City College after graduating from BCC, to pursue studying law in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a psychology major and part of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)&#8211; it is critical for me to be able to attend BCC. Before I enrolled in ASAP, I worked full-time and was a full-time student as well. It was difficult to manage everything: I am a mom \u2013 I have two young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,181,79],"tags":[76,14,18,72,138],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-84","category-senate-district-29","category-bronx-community-college","tag-asap","tag-childcare","tag-job","tag-opportunity-program","tag-support-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}