I am a 19-year-old finance major at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. I tried to apply for financial aid, however my parents are categorized as middle-class citizens therefore I didn\u2019t qualify for financial aid. My parents help with paying my tuition and I have to get myself everything else. I pay for all my textbooks and transport to and from school. These all add up and it gets expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I work in the restaurant industry and have aspirations of becoming a restaurateur one day. I came to BMCC to study finance because I want to have a greater knowledge of business financials for my career path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I started at BMCC I had to see an academic advisor, someone I thought would be invested in my career choices and give me advice for future academic options — as well as be a consistent person every semester. This for was not the case, I was assigned a different advisor for each semester and found myself having to recite my story each time a saw an advisor. I felt that I didn’t matter, because the only advice I would receive would be what classes I needed to take next, how many credits I had earned and was still to earn. Honestly, things I could have done on my own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a 19-year-old finance major at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. I tried to apply for financial aid, however my parents are categorized as middle-class citizens therefore I didn\u2019t qualify for financial aid. My parents help with paying my tuition and I have to get myself everything else. I pay for all my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","tag-advisement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}