My parents paid for my college education.  I never knew what a big deal that was until I had to pay for my own graduate school tuition (and by pay, I mean pay back lots of loans).  So when my parents encouraged me to apply for college scholarships, I probably shouldn’t have blown it off as much as I did.  But I was a high school senior with activities and a job and a social life, which didn’t leave any time to search for scholarships, let alone apply for them with all their required essays and letters of recommendation.  My mom kept telling me about so-and-so who got a scholarship for being left-handed, or playing the oboe, or being able to type with his toes.  There’s nothing interesting or fantastic about me so unless there were millionaires giving away money “just because,” I didn’t see the point.  Read the rest of this entry »

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