College, Death, and Volunteering
So early January- after my last post, I heard back from my first college, by phone.
My admissions counselor at Colby Sawyer College called to let me know personally that not only did I get accepted into the college, but I got accepted into the honors program (which was what I was expecting for this college) AND that comes with a 15 thousand dollar scholarship which is renewable every year! I can't remember if this scholarship is almost half of the tuition or almost half of the total cost, but either way its very good and its not including other scholarships I can get.
I've also heard back from Fitchburg State a week or so ago. Nothing was mentioned on scholarships but its a state school so its going to be cheaper regardless. Still have 5 more colleges to hear back from, including my top choice. Cross fingers!
School has been going as usual. Just finished midterms last week and its blah. Senioritis has hit hard.
My friends mom passed away two Fridays ago (While my friend was in Chicago for a school interview). It was horrible. Her mom has been battling MS for some time now and she was just put into a nursing home that Thursday night, and then a day later she was dead. I felt so bad for her, especially since her biggest fear was that her mom wouldn't make it to her high school graduation. And sadly, that turned out to be true. I went to the wake last Wednesday but decided not to go to the funeral because I felt like I'd be intruding.
In other bad news, I found out my grandfather from my fathers side passed away suddenly last Monday. Something to do with his heart- my dad called like, an hour after he passed and it was horrible because I kept thinking "he died an hour ago... he died two hours ago". I feel horrible because he came down to America this past summer and he annoyed me- I couldn't wait for him to leave. And now he's gone- no chance to say 'goodbye, sorry for being so awful to you, I really do love you'. Of course, how could I have known? But still.
The only good thing is that my father's there (since he didn't go to Greece last year and he wasn't there when his mother passed away freshmen year). I haven't talked to him yet, but my mother says he's a wreck- something I can't imagine since I've never seen him cry before. He was supposed to come back home Feb 19 but he's coming back in March, now, so he can stay for the 40 days.
Did I mention, that I got awarded Volunteer of the Month a couple of weeks ago? They called me to come to the hospital so I could fill out some 'paperwork' and I totally fell for it. Never did it cross my mind that they were just trying to get me to come to the hospital to award me! It was such a pleasant surprise, considering you have to be nominated and everything. Only this past Saturday did the picture I had taken arrive, so it's only now gone up in its little 'volunteer of the month' slot with my name engraved on a name tag. But the Feb volunteer of the month will be awarded in the middle of the month, so I won't have my picture on display for very long.
My admissions counselor at Colby Sawyer College called to let me know personally that not only did I get accepted into the college, but I got accepted into the honors program (which was what I was expecting for this college) AND that comes with a 15 thousand dollar scholarship which is renewable every year! I can't remember if this scholarship is almost half of the tuition or almost half of the total cost, but either way its very good and its not including other scholarships I can get.
I've also heard back from Fitchburg State a week or so ago. Nothing was mentioned on scholarships but its a state school so its going to be cheaper regardless. Still have 5 more colleges to hear back from, including my top choice. Cross fingers!
School has been going as usual. Just finished midterms last week and its blah. Senioritis has hit hard.
My friends mom passed away two Fridays ago (While my friend was in Chicago for a school interview). It was horrible. Her mom has been battling MS for some time now and she was just put into a nursing home that Thursday night, and then a day later she was dead. I felt so bad for her, especially since her biggest fear was that her mom wouldn't make it to her high school graduation. And sadly, that turned out to be true. I went to the wake last Wednesday but decided not to go to the funeral because I felt like I'd be intruding.
In other bad news, I found out my grandfather from my fathers side passed away suddenly last Monday. Something to do with his heart- my dad called like, an hour after he passed and it was horrible because I kept thinking "he died an hour ago... he died two hours ago". I feel horrible because he came down to America this past summer and he annoyed me- I couldn't wait for him to leave. And now he's gone- no chance to say 'goodbye, sorry for being so awful to you, I really do love you'. Of course, how could I have known? But still.
The only good thing is that my father's there (since he didn't go to Greece last year and he wasn't there when his mother passed away freshmen year). I haven't talked to him yet, but my mother says he's a wreck- something I can't imagine since I've never seen him cry before. He was supposed to come back home Feb 19 but he's coming back in March, now, so he can stay for the 40 days.
Did I mention, that I got awarded Volunteer of the Month a couple of weeks ago? They called me to come to the hospital so I could fill out some 'paperwork' and I totally fell for it. Never did it cross my mind that they were just trying to get me to come to the hospital to award me! It was such a pleasant surprise, considering you have to be nominated and everything. Only this past Saturday did the picture I had taken arrive, so it's only now gone up in its little 'volunteer of the month' slot with my name engraved on a name tag. But the Feb volunteer of the month will be awarded in the middle of the month, so I won't have my picture on display for very long.