{"id":958,"date":"2020-04-14T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=958"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:24:28","slug":"jessica-woodberry-nyc-college-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/jessica-woodberry-nyc-college-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Woodberry, NYC College of Technology"},"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\/Jessica-City-Tech-storybank-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-960\" width=\"287\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jessica-City-Tech-storybank-1.png 627w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jessica-City-Tech-storybank-1-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit-wise I\u2019m a senior, but I will be here until 2021. I would like to go to law school, but I can\u2019t afford to pay for LSAT exam, which is a couple hundred dollars. I came from the Fashion Institute of Technology graduating with a major in pattern-making technology. Then I went to John Jay where I got my Bachelors in English and minor in Law, and now I\u2019m studying at City Tech as a Law and Paralegal major. I continued to go to school thinking that TAP would cover it because they didn\u2019t tell me that they only cover four years of school. I pay for school through student loans now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents pay for my textbooks, I receive SNAP for food, and I am concerned about graduating on time. Tuition is going up, and I can\u2019t afford it, which means I can\u2019t take full amounts of classes like I want to. I had to go part-time at one point because I couldn\u2019t afford to take full-time credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got sick senior year of my first bachelors, so I had to take a semester off, and then I had a miscarriage so I took another semester off, and what they don\u2019t tell you is that they count those semesters off as part of the 4 years of TAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really need the prices to come down because I\u2019m a single parent with a 14 year-old daughter, and I\u2019m trying to make ends meet. I\u2019m trying to further my career, but it\u2019s too expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit-wise I\u2019m a senior, but I will be here until 2021. I would like to go to law school, but I can\u2019t afford to pay for LSAT exam, which is a couple hundred dollars. I came from the Fashion Institute of Technology graduating with a major in pattern-making technology. Then I went to John Jay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,146,122],"tags":[195,27,101,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-58","category-senate-district-20","category-nyc-college-of-technology","tag-delayed-graduation","tag-food-costs","tag-snap","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}