Renegade Blogger

Scholarships can be really annoying at times, especially since I haven’t won any of the ones I’ve applied for yet. I’m a nice guy, really, I am. Apparently some mystical people that I don’t know don’t think I’m nice enough, good enough, or fantastic enough to award me any sum of money. Do I have to beg? I was lucky enough that I didn’t have to write multiple essays for college applications, but I now am discovering that I have to write multiple essays for awards that I probably wont even be awarded. That’s a very pessimistic attitude, and not really one that I carry a lot, but I guess it’s a little bit of aggravation in me about the system. All told I will apply for most likely over 10 scholarships. Currently I’ve applied for three with Warren Wilson College, two that I discovered via fastweb.com and then I have three more that I am working on through the school.

I have to write essays describing my volunteer activities (the fact that they were extensive and influential make them that much harder to write about) about my extracurricular, my academic goals etc etc, just seems to drag on.
“But its worth it” everyone tells me, just think of the cost benefit. For a few hours of your time you can be awarded large sums of money to help with your education. Yeah, I guess your right. Somewhere out there I’ll find someone who likes what I’ve done enough to award me some denero. Unfortunately, until then I have to keep writing these god-forsaken essays informing them why I deserve the money, or my academic goals. What do they think they are? To waste thousands of dollars partying. I think not. I wonder what the scholarship committee for the academic one thinks when they read them. “Up, this keep wants to succeed in college. Up, here’s another one that told us what we want to hear.” I guess its all how you set yourself apart that matters…