Well, in general CUNY and SUNY tuition hikes are detrimental to lower class students who rely on the lower tuition for their advanced education. Because of the hikes, students are having to resort to increasingly drastic measures to make up the money.

In my case, I’ve been penny pinching since middle school so I’ve accumulated enough savings to pay through undergrad out of pocket. However the tuition (and especially the hike) has had me reassess my financial situation to see what I’ll have to cut and what I’ll have to do in order to afford it. Since on top of paying for school, I live alone and basically have been living self-sufficiently. On a side note I’m living almost exclusively on white rice to keep a monthly surplus.