{"id":913,"date":"2020-04-13T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=913"},"modified":"2020-04-13T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:28:12","slug":"alejandra-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/alejandra-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandra, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alejandra-ccny-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-914\" width=\"252\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alejandra-ccny-storybank.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alejandra-ccny-storybank-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a freshman at CCNY. I receive financial aid and pay for books, transportation, and food with my earning from work. I don\u2019t receive work-study and am not part of any opportunity programs. If I didn\u2019t receive any financial aid, I would probably have to take out loans and ask for my parents&#8217; support, but that would be an additional burden on them since they have to have other financial responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would certainly appreciate a child care center on campus because a lot of CCNY students really need it. We need a fully funded CUNY because not all students have access to money. Many of them are struggling. I\u2019m lucky to have parents that would support me if I couldn\u2019t work, but many students don\u2019t have that kind of support. Having to work full time at a job puts a lot of stress on a student and often interrupts their ability to study and maintain their grades. Being in school on its own is very stressful and adding a job to that becomes very draining and can lead to mental health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest challenge as a CUNY student is transportation because the only bus that I\u2019m able to take to get to campus is not reliable, and it interferes with my attendance in class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a freshman at CCNY. I receive financial aid and pay for books, transportation, and food with my earning from work. I don\u2019t receive work-study and am not part of any opportunity programs. If I didn\u2019t receive any financial aid, I would probably have to take out loans and ask for my parents&#8217; support, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,75,106],"tags":[16,18,114,20,36],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-68","category-senate-district-30","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-financial-aid","tag-job","tag-mental-health","tag-textbooks","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}