Paying for college is expensive

Going to college is not cheap. Trust me, my education has been expensive and if I decide to go to Graduate School like I’m planning to do, it’s going to cost more. Thankfully there are a lot of scholarships out there to help upcoming and current college students pay for that education that they need and deserve. There are websites such as Scholarships.com that has free access to lists upon lists of scholarships. The website is updated constantly with scholarships such as the Bill Gates scholarship, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. College is expensive, but with the help of a website like this, it can make paying for your education easier.

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I hate books…

So says the former English major… and Creative Writing minor. So I went to the bookstore to see how many books I would need and this semester I only used one book really, because I dropped that one class but this coming semester - every class has one or more books. (more…)

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Damn, today is good.

So I wake up after not sleeping well because of stuff on my mind, go to therapy, have a great time there, go up to the office for a bit, chat it up, come home and I have money waiting for me! The loan check came early by surprise and my check for working the CBS NFL game! Getting checks like that make me feel all important, especially the CBS one because CBS is such a big company and stuff.

So now I’m about to head back to Valdosta, put the checks in the bank and go buy some shampoo. Yes, that’s how I celebrate making ALL FREAKIN’ B’s THIS SEMESTER. Okay so since I did good, I might buy something other than shampoo but this is future money. My future.

Now I’m gonna go spend the day alone, shopping and damn that’s going to feel good.

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Christmas in Wonderland?

So something told me to call the loan company today to see how my case was going and the lady told me that they were mailing out a check later today so that everything went through! This isn’t a loan with the school so this is to help me pay for Summer and to go to the dentist to get that all done. I’m going to go ahead and start paying the fees and stuff now while I’m still in school. However, I asked for a little extra in the amount so that my Mom and I won’t be stuck at home during Christmas. I want to go to Nashville or Charlotte for Christmas… and from the looks of it, it’ll be Charlotte. I’d rather go to Nashville but it’s too expensive to go. Hopefully it’ll snow up in North Carolina, and hopefully we do get to go. It’ll be nice not being stuck here, alone because honestly, we’re always alone on Christmas - ever since my Granny died and even thinking about going somewhere for Christmas is making me be in the Christmas spirit and I haven’t been in the Christmas spirit since she died. I used to love Christmas and now, like every other holiday, it’s just another day. I want it to be special.

Going somewhere would make it special. (more…)

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Follow the yellow brick road…

Yesterday was… interesting. We get down to Jacksonville at 7:30 and end up not having a place to park and we thought we were going to have to pay $30 to park which.. huh…. not happening. Eventually we get a parking place and I get placed to be the producers “phone person” which basically what I ended up doing was answering the phone for the producer… they would call and say “So and so has an injured ankle and will be out the rest of the game”. I tell the producer, the producer tells the director who tells the broadcasters. I also wore this little headset and everytime there was an injured player, I would tell this guy (I think he was in NY) who it was and what team, or if there was a time out, I would tell who and what team. It was interesting and I felt like I had an important job role. (more…)

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