I am taking a blog holiday, but what I’ve done, is go through the archives and pick a few somewhat random posts that I thought you might like to see again. Enjoy!
This past weekend I was at a party and there were a lot of people there I didn’t know. Through conversation with one of them, I found out about a very cool summer job for college students that anyone with some internet savvy, research skills, and determination can do.
One of the men there had a daughter home for the summer between her first two years of college. She knew that all the jobs available to her were low paying, and because she lived in the country, there wasn’t much to choose from even if she did want to work away her summer for a pittance. So what she did was create her own “job” and it was to find herself scholarships.
She spent time every day working at this, looking for those forgotten, small scholarships that go unclaimed or are under-applied for each year. She set her goal to apply for at least five scholarships each week. She concentrated on the $200 ones or the $500 ones, rather than the $10K ones that everyone else was looking to win. By the end of the summer she had won $30,000 in scholarships for the upcoming school year! Now that’s impressive!
How did you pay for college?
That’s awesome! I was raised knowing that if I didn’t get a scholarship, I wasn’t going to college. Not that my parents wouldn’t have tried to help me and my siblings–they just couldn’t. That was the situation for most kids in my tiny hometown. Many of us were able to go to school through scholarships (including me and all of my siblings, although we also all worked part time or full time). The fact that we received our higher degrees in part through the generosity of others is something I’ll always remember. Hopefully, someday I’ll be able to pass the buck along to someone who wouldn’t otherwise have an opportunity to get any higher education.
In response to Eileen’s comment, my husband, who teaches English at the university level, says that his students who work are, in general, far more dedicated and successful than those who don’t. Not that you can’t be a success and not work while you’re going to college…but I think there’s something to be said for the discipline required to work while going to school. Also, the things we pay for with money we’ve earned (or sought out, like the young lady in Joelle’s post) always seem to have so much more value to us, don’t you think?
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I read an article over the weekend that teens who work part time tend to be more likely to graduate from college. Go figure.