{"id":922,"date":"2020-04-13T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=922"},"modified":"2020-04-13T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:47:53","slug":"amanuel-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/amanuel-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanuel, 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\/amanuel-ccny-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/YFviYpF_wIZmwnKhnh40mXv9WDfCCjwzp2chQLAXoqt7uHGL2X1GsGra-Ek0Zmrowpa4aevpGVmuNpgpL-toxIg-6nLRsaB-mUwSOonn60rNg0wY_Va4Vef0TagobBmyX32rp52j\" class=\"wp-image-923\" width=\"291\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/amanuel-ccny-storybank.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/amanuel-ccny-storybank-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m double majoring in anthropology and Political Science. After graduating, I plan on getting a master\u2019s in International Relations and hopefully working for a nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I receive the Pell Grant, but it doesn&#8217;t cover my full tuition so I have to work and pay the rest out of pocket. I also pay for books, transportation, and food. Working while being a full-time student is stressful because it\u2019s hard to balance school and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest challenge as a CUNY student has been getting to class on time because living in New Jersey and commuting to New York is really hard. I would appreciate work-study and have made an appeal on my application but haven\u2019t heard back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would appreciate a child care center on campus because I know a lot of students who have children and have nowhere to leave them while they\u2019re in school. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CUNY should be free and fully funded because a lot of students struggle financially, and education should be a right for everyone to access. It shouldn\u2019t be limited by your financial situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m double majoring in anthropology and Political Science. After graduating, I plan on getting a master\u2019s in International Relations and hopefully working for a nonprofit organization. I receive the Pell Grant, but it doesn&#8217;t cover my full tuition so I have to work and pay the rest out of pocket. I also pay for books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[14,16,18,28,126,89],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-childcare","tag-financial-aid","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-tuition","tag-work-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}