I hate scholarship-searching. I don't have financial aid at the moment because my GPA sucks and I don't play sports and my ACT score wasn't high enough for BrightFlight. And because I'm sort of lazy
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YES. I AGREE COMPLETELY. Seriously. The amount of money it costs to get an education in this country is obscene, and the way we all have to jump through hoops to pay for school is so, so outrageous.
You could work your sort-of diagnosis into an overcoming adversary essay.... Talk about how no specialists have come up with anything concrete...
It's ridiculous, yeah. I've got a college fund, but I don't know how much is in it, and I'll probably end up getting loans... but I need other money. *Pokes at irritating scholarships I don't quite qualify for*
Heh. Maybe. I'm actually going to work on an "Overcoming Being So Boring I'm Constantly Overlooked" essay. Because people who have issues and hardships? They're interesting. Me? I'm not. And that's a major problem.
This is the first time I've ever wished my family was a bit more dysfunctional. Divorced parents, adopted siblings, dad ran off for another man, identical twin... you know, those slightly ridiculous things they give you money for. Even the vegetarian-scholarship was annoying, because it was basically "don't hurt the animals!!!" and "what can be done to save the [insert animal here]?"
Um. Yeah. Wonder how they'd react to my "I'm a vegetarian because that episode of Torchwood grossed me out, and then I just sort of became accustomed to it".
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You could work your sort-of diagnosis into an overcoming adversary essay.... Talk about how no specialists have come up with anything concrete...
Argh.
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Heh. Maybe. I'm actually going to work on an "Overcoming Being So Boring I'm Constantly Overlooked" essay. Because people who have issues and hardships? They're interesting. Me? I'm not. And that's a major problem.
This is the first time I've ever wished my family was a bit more dysfunctional. Divorced parents, adopted siblings, dad ran off for another man, identical twin... you know, those slightly ridiculous things they give you money for. Even the vegetarian-scholarship was annoying, because it was basically "don't hurt the animals!!!" and "what can be done to save the [insert animal here]?"
Um. Yeah. Wonder how they'd react to my "I'm a vegetarian because that episode of Torchwood grossed me out, and then I just sort of became accustomed to it".
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