Apply
For Scholarships
 Since
today's comic is Reddit-centric I thought I'd borrow
a small section from a recent Reddit thread on college
hacks which gives some good
advice on obtaining scholarships from the
college
of
your choice. I hope you find it useful.
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My department had $6K-$10K scholarships that sometimes
had only ONE person apply for them. It is the easiest
money you will ever make.
Edit: Lots of people have been asking how to find scholarships
so here's a copy/paste of one of my responses.
Your university's webpage usually has a laundry list
of them. Apply to any that you even remotely qualify
for (if they can't find anyone who fits ALL the requirements,
they'll still give out the scholarship. They don't want
to just sit on the money). Department/major-specific
scholarships usually have the lowest competition. Once
you declare a major, check with your department chair
(or watch out for their emails, they usually announce
these sorts of things).
This is the only time in your life where writing a few
essays could net you thousands of dollars. - Tetra0
Dude, apply for everything. Where I live, there was a 2k
scholarship for woman who did the most for feminism. Requirements:
be a girl. One person applied and that person won. It was
a guy.
A guy won the woman's activist scholarship. - Fr0sTThunder
You gotta know where to look, every school has some old rich
alums donate money for scholarships. My university's web
page for these was buried like 8 pages deep from the dept
home page, but they were there. This was a fairly small liberal
arts state school, but there were close to a dozen scholarships
for our small physics dept alone, then there were the ones
that were interdisciplinary...
If you go to a state school of any reasonable size (>5k
undergrads) I'd be shocked if there aren't any departmental
scholarships. - Tetra0
Financial aid advisor here. Apply for EVERYTHING. I work
at a technical school, private, very expensive. I have tons
of students who apply for nothing. Most of those who apply
get $1000-$3000 in scholarships. I have one kid starting
classes next month who is getting $15,000 in scholarships,
not counting his grants. That's more than 1/3 of his total
tuition just because he filled out some paperwork and took
a test.
Apply. Please. - missdewey
Every year I apply for over 10 scholarships and have never
received a single one. All of my scholarships/grants I've
received via fafsa without having to do any extra work. -
lBlAlRlClOlDl3l
A-fucking-men. I'm going in as a sophomore
this fall, and I've already 100% paid off my undergrad by
writing a handful
of essays and being willing to follow up when people offer
scholarships. In fact, last year my uni owed me a substantial
amount of money. - BurningCircus
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 As
the weekends approach I always enjoy
visiting rottentomatoes.com and searching for
movies which have recently been released to DVD, especially
those
which have garnered high critical
praise yet have managed to fly under my pop-culture radar.
This past weekend that movie was "What
Maisie Knew". I'd
never heard of it before but it came with an 89%
favorable rating so I gave it a look. Even though it was
not my kind of film, paradoxically, it was exactly my kind
of film.
It's an adaptation of an 1897 story by Henry James
and, in this version, it's about educated, talented parents
who love
their careers more than their children. As you might guess,
the casualty is the titular Maisie,
an adorable six-year-old
girl who deserves more than the crusts of affection she receives.
This
is not the big-budget, emotional, overwrought mess of a Kramer
vs. Kramer. It's much smaller and smarter, allowing the audience
to fill in the pieces of words left unsaid. The writing and
performances are excellent and the directors get
the most out of young Onata Aprile appearing, as she does,
in
almost every scene. It
feels like a foreign film at times, and that's
no slight.
This is one of those movies I ponder about how it ever got
made as it's simply a slice of life, though an affluent,
uptown one. No gunplay, no car chases, no zombies. I don't
know what demographic boodle-bag the producers were aiming
at
but it
was certainly
no blockbuster.
Still, it earns it 89% honestly so if you need a well-crafted
tale that won't leave you fuming over nonsensical plot twists
then check this one out. Available at your nearest
rental
booth.
=Lefty=
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